One meets quite frequently Christian Scientists who are inclined to consider church problems, or difficulties, as normal and inevitable. This may seem to be the case, if one is regarding existence merely from a material or human point of view. If this attitude is not individually overcome by the understanding of Truth, the error may take on a more severe aspect. A state of thought which is apt to hold to the naturalness of a problem does not contribute to its solution, nor to the forestalling of other disharmonies. Rather does it make one unwittingly instrumental in prolonging them.
Moreover, the earnest student of Christian Science should never forget that he has "enlisted to lessen evil" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 450). The only scientific way of doing this is by accepting "perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration," as our Leader indicates (ibid., p. 259); and this includes demonstration of the perfect idea, Church.
In healing the troubles and foibles that would claim to assert themselves as a sick body, Christian Scientists have realized the fact of perfect man with very gratifying results in countless cases. Why not extend this method more consistently to the removing of impediments pertaining to the harmonious progress of a church organization?
