Christian Science Church in Potsdam, NY

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Potsdam, NY

Application for Membership

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Potsdam, NY

I hereby make application for membership in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Potsdam, New York. I subscribe to the Tenets of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts (see below), and to the By-laws of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Potsdam, New York.

Membership Application

Are you a member of The Mother Church?

Study carefully Article VIII, pages 40-49 in the Manual of the Mother Church, and the By-laws of this branch church.

The Tenets of Christian Science

  1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
  2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.
  3. We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
  4. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
  5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
  6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

The Tenets of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and the Manual of the Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy. © 1906, renewed 1934; 1908, renewed 1936, Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy. All rights reserved. Used by permission. 

This church is a branch of The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, MA, USA.