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THE USEFULNESS OF ORGANIZATION

From the August 1945 issue of The Christian Science Journal


A Dictionary's definition of the verb "to organize" is, "To arrange in interdependent parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation with respect to the whole." What we call a human organization results from the efforts of individuals to organize for the accomplishing of some common purpose.

Human organization is the human mind's temporary concept of what in reality is an eternal, spiritual fact. Until the spiritual order, wherein there is a perfect, perpetual association and co-ordination of all of God's ideas in God-ordered activity, is more fully demonstrated, human organization, when subordinated to righteous motives, is a helpful servant for constructive accomplishment.

The organizations called human governments have, on the whole, done much to further human progress. So have rightly motivated organizations to promote education, to improve communication and transportation, and to make and distribute things needed by mankind. In the present state of human thought, organization occupies an important and, for the most part, a useful place.

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