Robyn Lebron In 1906, the mother church was renovated and enlarged and now provides seating for approximately three thousand The organ, built by the Aeolian-Skinner Company of Boston, is one of the largest in the world; it covers eight divisions and has a total of 13,290 pipes In 1907, the “next friends” (a phrase used for a person who represents an action for another person who is under disability or otherwise unable to maintain a suit on their own behalf ) filed suit against church officials The suit on behalf of Mary Baker Eddy but without her blessing, alleging incompetent misuse of her property and abuse of her person, is filed against church officials and others by George W Glover, II (her son), George W Baker (her nephew), and Ebenezer J Foster Eddy (adopted son) The suit is unsuccessful Senator Chandler, one of the committee who examined her, said, “ǯ .” Mary Baker Eddy died in 1910, aged 89 Her last written words are “ .” Upon Eddy’s death in 1910, the administrative power was assumed, as laid down in the Manual, by the Christian Science board of directors Throughout the history of Christian Science there have been a small number of dissenting people, unacknowledged by the Boston organization Such dissenters often point to certain “estoppel” clauses of the last Church Manual issued by Mary Baker Eddy before her death which, had they been interpreted literally, would have led to a radical decentralization of the Christian Science Church The issue has involved the Church in repeated litigation brought by dissenters; most prominently from 1919-22, when a group of Trustees from the Christian Science Publishing Society filed a suit against the Christian Science Board of Directors.5 Although most Christian Scientists are in the United States, the religion is found in 130 countries with large Protestant populations A great percentage of its adherents are women The mother church does not publicly publish membership statistics because they feel that numbers are not important to their faith, but various undocumented sources have noted that membership has declined from its peak in the 1920s, of 400,000, down to 100,000 in 1992 However, the membership numbers on Adherents.com still shows 400,000 as of 2013 ~ 80 ~