Many boys and girls feel a great patriotic urge to do all they can to help win the war for righteousness. One hears frequently of some boy or girl who bemoans the fact of being too young to enlist; yet no one is ever too young to enlist in the warfare of Truth against the illusions of error.

Every pupil enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School has enlisted to combat to the best of his understanding whatever would oppose God's government on earth as in heaven. This is true because Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and our beloved Leader, has told us (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 450), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good."

David, when a youth, was sent to carry food to his brothers who were engaged in the struggle against the Philistines. Naturally interested in the struggle, David went to the battle front, where he heard their champion's boastful challenge. Then, with faith in God and in his own prowess, he went forth to meet the giant, Goliath. His innocence and firm faith in God permitted him to overcome the formidable foe simply and easily, with no harm to himself. Even so, the young student of Christian Science can meet the problems which appear to assume giant proportions, when he sees that evil is always merely a suggestion, and hence is not true and has no power.

One hears today a great deal about the need to be alert to the activities of saboteurs, fifth columnists, enemy aliens, et cetera. The student of Christian Science knows that the sabotage, fifth-column activity, and enemy aliens that also need watching are the aggressive mental suggestions which appear to be one's own thoughts, but which are enemy false beliefs. Such suggestions may argue that smoking and drinking are amusing and fashionable; they may also argue that a boy or girl need not attend the Christian Science Sunday School regularly because Church is everywhere and one can be about his Father's business at a camp or at home as well as in his class at Sunday school. These are types of mental alien enemies, saboteurs. While it is true that God is everywhere and all-powerful, ever ready to aid us yet the commandment which begins, "Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy." finds fulfillment in the pure and strengthening work of the Sunday school, which is provided for young people under twenty years of age.

Another suggestion that would undermine in its saboteur destruction is that a longer sleep is more desirable than attending Sunday school; yet often the only effect is to leave the individual dull in the vital things of Spirit. Mrs. Eddy's words, always to the point, leave no doubt as to the error of such argument. She says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 116): "Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never unready to work for God. —is obedience; being 'faithful over a few things.' If in one instance obedience be lacking, you lose the scientific rule and its reward: namely, to be made 'ruler over many things.'"

Yet another mental enemy alien, foreign to one's own normal thinking is the aggressive suggestion that attending Sunday school, applying the teachings of Christian Science, is too rigid, too strenuous, too drastic.

Men who have enlisted in the armed forces find old habits of ease in matter no longer possible. Instead, they must arise and retire according to army regulations. Their exercises are strenuous, even arduous, and above all they must and do learn quickly that there can be no insubordination to the rules that govern soldiers. Orders must be obeyed. In Christian Science, the faithful, the obedient, do not think of the way as hard, but instead they rejoice that the blessings are so much greater than the sacrifice—that is, the abandoning of ease in matter, with all its indulgences, is as nothing compared with the unselfish joy which seeks to do those things that please God.

There are countries today where there has been wholesale exploitation of youth, where, owing to the machinations of evil, youth has been deliberately misinformed and mistaught. All-important, therefore to the world as a whole are the young people who have been correctly taught the truths of Christian Science, which asserts accurately and positively that there is and can be no power apart from God, and that the five physical senses, or so-called mortal mind, must give up their lying testimony. Man, made in God's image, has continuous dominion over "all the earth," as the Bible states. Therefore, we have God-given dominion over false beliefs and aggressive mental suggestions.

The young people of today will be the adults of tomorrow; the future must needs be blessed, as it most certainly will be, by the spiritual thoughts and honest lives of those who today, as boys and girls, are obedient to Principle, living brave and faithful lives.

Enlisting for the duration is enlisting to fight and labor on the side of God, Truth, Spirit, until, in the words of a hymn,