Stop making up by-laws - a rant

I was at two meetings this week discussing options we might consider in changing the church services. On both occasions people referenced Mrs. Eddy preferences for elements of the service by pointing out quotes in Misc. Writings. I can't help feeling that the only research anyone needs to do to know what Mrs. Eddy wanted for church is to pick up the Manual. That's the only official set of rules for church. If you’re holding on to some element of church that isn’t explicit in the Manual by insisting that Mrs. Eddy meant for us to do it, you’re really saying she just forgot to add  it to one of the 88 versions she published in her lifetime. Even though she makes it clear that she prayed long and hard about every by-law, the one thing that you don’t want to change was the one thing God didn’t remind her to put in. It’s offensive to me to treat her with such disrespect. The Manual is the only set of rules for the Church, and we are doing this movement a huge disservice in making up “by-laws” that don’t exist.