The active Christian Scientist is not indifferent to problems, either the world's or his own. Like many of his fellowmen he is engaged in solving them and is usually deeply, sincerely committed to do so.
His approach, however, is not the same as the world's. His commitment is based upon an awakened understanding of what the problem really is. He is not fooled by trying to heal only what the difficulty claims to be. He goes to the root of it. Through the teachings of Christian Science he is awake to the fact that the basic error is mortal mind, which Mrs. Eddy has unmasked as a suppositional mind apart from the all-knowing divine Mind, God. He knows that the basis from which to solve problems is the allness of the divine Mind, acknowledged and demonstrated by active spiritual qualities embodied in his own consciousness and lived in daily experience.
For this reason the earnest Christian Scientist refuses to become a part of the problem. He refuses to be used by mortal thinking and reacting. He knows that hateful, limited, mortal elements of thought, accepted as realities, temporarily darken one's spiritual clarity and weaken the effectiveness of one's ability to heal. He makes every effort to follow Paul's instruction, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil. 2:5;
