The abolition of preaching in 1895 is the church's most distinctive institutional act. Eddy ordained the Bible and Science and Health as pastor, and personal sermons stopped everywhere at once. Two Readers, elected for three-year terms and forbidden by the Manual from reading with theatrical emphasis or adding a word of their own, read alternately from the two books. The lesson is compiled in Boston in the Christian Science Quarterly, cycles through twenty-six subjects twice a year, and is the same in every branch church on earth on the same Sunday, which produces the unusual situation of a worldwide denomination with no preacher and no local doctrinal variation. Wednesday evening meetings are the exception: members stand and give testimonies of healing, and this is the only unscripted speech in the church's worship.