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We may now make a final footing-up of Mrs. Eddy, and see what she is, in the fulness of her powers. She is The Massachusetts Metaphysical College Pastor Emeritus;

President;

Board of Directors;

Board of Education;

Board of Lectureships;

Future Board of Trustees, Proprietor of the Publishing-House and Periodicals;

Treasurer;

Clerk;

Proprietor of the Teachers;

Proprietor of the Lecturers;

Proprietor of the Missionaries;

Proprietor of the Readers;

Dictator of the Services; sole Voice of the Pulpit;

Proprietor of the Sanhedrin;

Sole Proprietor of the Creed. (Copyrighted.);

Indisputable Autocrat of the Branch Churches, with their life and death in her hands;

Sole Thinker for The First Church (and the others);

Sole and Infallible Expounder of Doctrine, in life and in death;

Sole permissible Discoverer, Denouncer, Judge, and Executioner of Ostensible Hypnotists;

Fifty-handed God of Excommunication--with a thunderbolt in every hand;

Appointer and Installer of the Pastor of all the Churches--the Perpetual Pastor-Universal, Science and Health, "the Comforter."