Article September 25, 1943 Issue

One Commander-in-Chief

[Of Special Interest to Service Men and Women]

PERRY H. RADCLIFFE

When one enters the service, whether it be the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or some other branch, problems present themselves which are peculiar to military life. The change from a civil to a military status is a drastic one. Home duties must be relinquished and new ways learned totally unlike anything that has gone before. Many young people come from sheltered homes, and may, for a time, find difficulty in adjusting themselves to their new surroundings. For all such, the truth learned in the Christian Science Sunday School or gained from study of the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is the sovereign way out of every difficulty. One need but put what one learns into practice, to find the right solution to every problem.

A testing time comes early to the newly made soldier. All inductees are requested to state their religious preference. A sense of timidity might cause some to register simply as "Protestant"; but the alert student will want to march under his true colors, as a Christian Scientist. No harm can come, and much good will result, from thus taking a positive stand for Truth.

The fact that there is practically no privacy for those in the service is a source of trial for a Christian Scientist. It requires courage to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly before the curious gaze of a hundred others in the same barracks, many of whom may not be in sympathy with our way of thought. Yet to refrain from the study of the Lesson on this account is to be deprived of the help and comfort the Bible and Science and Health give us at the very time when they are most needed. Moreover, it has been the experience of those who have fearlessly done this, that invariably they are respected.

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