The Christian Science organization, with its literature, church services, practice of healing, lectures, is meeting human needs, or rather, it is bringing the attention of humanity to the availability of divine help in every time of need. The human sense, which is entertained by mankind, is material, and it is found to have in the experience of an individual a transitory, not a substantial basis. As an understanding of the spiritually scientific state of being is gained, belief in the importance or value of the material sense diminishes. Thus the student of Christian Science learns that good must overcome evil, Truth must conquer error at every step of the way.
This overcoming is, of course, through improvement of thinking, with its attendant improvement of experience, which may be indicated as spiritual education and the disappearance of fears, limitations, and discords. The test which the individual encounters is that of his sincerity of purpose, and obedience to what Principle teaches. He comes to recognize as characteristic of true religion the spiritual qualities, such as patience, courage, fidelity, perseverance, unselfishness, meekness, loving service, and whatever else is found exemplified in the character and conduct of Christ Jesus. Attending individual growth in these qualities of thought there may be moments of perplexity, the significance of which is that we must ''let patience have her perfect work."
Such moments of perplexity have arisen in the experiences of some who, after reading a page or even a paragraph of the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, have found that they did not remember precisely what they had been reading. Following closely upon this negative discovery came the temptation to indulge in self-condemnation and to think that these spiritual teachings are too high for every one to grasp. At this point the reader of the textbook perhaps turns to a friend, one who is presumed to have had a somewhat extended and practical experience in Christian Science, and asks why he does not seem able to remember readily what he has been reading.
