Editorial August 4, 1951 Issue

JOINING THE FORCES

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Liberty is naturally dear to everyone, especially to those who have been reared and educated in a democratic country. We are all given opportunities to make use of the spiritual understanding we have gained through a study of Christian Science. The times make it imperative to use what we know of Truth and thus to prove our immunity from the besetments of evil. The student of Science who is drafted into the armed forces need not shrink from the task that lies ahead. His primary concern is to recognize that he is in the service of God and that God is the great commander; thus he must be watchful to obey his commander in every detail. He must also be true to the voice of conscience and never lower his standard of moral integrity, which he has learned through the study of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.

Once he is aware that God, divine Love, controls his experience, he will have no fear, wherever he may he assigned. His experience in the forces will give him many glorious opportunities to prove the truth of Christian Science. His first duty is to obey God, and his second duty is to follow the Golden Rule of doing to others as he would have them do to him.

Perhaps a student has been a pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School. If so, he has already received a spiritual equipment in the priceless teachings of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 251), "What God gives, elucidates, armors, and tests in His service, is ours."

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