Much is being done to attain up-to-date organization of the functions of The Mother Church; and this is necessary for its progress in taking scientific Christianity to the world. Organization is the means for bringing about order, and order causes expansion and growth to be more readily achieved. A good plan is a good demonstration of intelligence, and intelligent organization is expressed in good planning. If mistakes should creep in, they can always be detected and corrected.
The organization of The Mother Church must be kept in line with the needs of the times and with the world's development. All of this activity must be, of course, fitted into the great framework of the Manual of The Mother Church, which Mary Baker Eddy provided for the government of the institution she founded. In the Manual we see organization in its highest expression, purely God-inspired and God-protected. The Christian Science movement can prosper and progress only as the By-Laws of the Manual are meticulously implemented and obeyed. With loving care our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, outlines in the Manual the duties of officers and members and the general conduct of the business affairs of her Church. Nothing can prevent the progress of the Cause of Christian Science when her leadership is acknowledged by obedience to it.
Mrs. Eddy saw the dangers of material organization, and she designed the Manual to prevent secularization and its perils. She says, "Every step of progress is a step more spiritual." The People's Idea of God, p. 1; If an organizational development does not protect and speed spiritual growth, it is presenting a peril to progress. Our Leader says, "Losing the comprehensive in the technical, the Principle in its accessories, cause in effect, and faith in sight, we lose the Science of Christianity,— a predicament quite like that of the man who could not see London for its houses." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 149;
