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An interview with General Henry M. Baker
Originally published in the 1954 pamphlet titled “Permanency of The Mother Church and Its Manual (Revised Edition)”
From the reminiscences of William R. Rathvon in the archives of The Mother Church
While with our Leader I sometimes wondered why she gave to the Manual so much importance in the carrying on of our movement. I see it now, as we all did when the litigation of six years ago was begun, and our Manual stood firm as the rock of Gibraltar as the seas of error were pounding against it.
Through years of preparation, observation, and demonstration, Mrs. Eddy had been formulating a code of laws that would stand unshaken and impregnable under any attack from within or without that might be launched against it. It is unthinkable and unreasonable to assume that she would so frame her laws in the Manual that they would not operate after she was permanently absent. She was a master builder; she built not for today but for all time.
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