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Title: The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: New Hampshire -- History Periodicals Publisher: Dover, N.H. : H.H. Metcalf, Publisher Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: {/ saidviember belongs to no other eliiorh,shall be laid before this Board, andwithin thirty days thereafter, theclerk of the Church shall address aletter of inquiry to the member com-plained of, as to its validity. If the previous Christian characterof the accused member is good, hisreply to the clerk contradicting theaccusations, or his confession thereofand compliance with our ChurchRules, shall be sufficient on behalf ofsaid member for the Board to dismissthe subject, and the clerk of theChurch shall immediately so informhim. Also, the complainant shallcease to speak ill of him, or be sub-ject to discipline and dismissal fromthis Church. No cards shall be re-moved from our periodicals except 274 AMONG THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES. by a majority vote of the ChristianScience Board of Directors and FirstReader, at a meeting of the MotherChurch held for this purpose, or forthe examination of complaints. NoChurch discipline shall ensue untilthe requirements, according to the % ji ■

Text Appearing After Image: First Church of Christ, Scientist, Minneapolis, Minn Scripture, Matthew 18:15, 16, havebeen strictly obeyed. A member of the Mother Church,and a member or the Reader of aBranch Church of Christ, Scientist,shall not send to the Mother Churcha complaint against another memberof a Branch Church. Each Churchshall separately and independentlydiscipline its own members—if thissad necessity ever occurs. In all of the branch churches areto be found Christian Science prac-titioners, the body of their congrega-tions being to a considerable extentpractising Scientists, although all donot practise professionally. One ofthe dominant ideas of the doctrineis that a right understanding of theWord of God so enables an indi-vidual to apply it that it becomes both physician and spiritual guide.Large numbers of families employneither doctors of medicine nor ofdivinity for their temporal and spir-itual needs, turning in all times ofphysical or mental adversity to thepractical application of what theirte

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