MATERIAL CHURCH ACTIVITY – 14
If you have more faith in establishing Christ’s church by material organization than upon the spiritual rock of Christ, then you build upon matter instead of Spirit — build upon sand. Personal combinations, human thought and effort, material ways and means whereby to establish and maintain the church of Christ are weak, vacillating, temporal, subject to divisions, factions, feuds, and all the etcetera of mortal and material phenomena. Mary Baker Eddy (Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays On Christian Science, p.11)