Article January 8, 1955 Issue

Activities for the Armed Services

[The following accounts of service personnel have been received by the Armed Services Department and are now shared with the Field.]

An officer wrote the Christian Science Activities for the Armed Services substantially as follows:

"My military headquarters assigned an engineer and me to an emergency construction task. We had a limited specified time to accomplish our mission which involved many factors. We had to organize a working party of servicemen and natives, procure materials and equipment from sources that were unknown to us at the time, and erect our project under winter conditions. All phases of the assignment ran smoothly except the erection of our project.

"At the time the weather was bad. Snow, rain, sleet, and severe gales interfered with the construction work and caused us to assemble all our materials under shelter. I studied and prayed earnestly and continuously in Christian Science for the solution of our problem. When the storm did not subside at the end of five days and our time was running out, I called the crew together to organize emergency steps. I recognized that we must rely unreservedly on God if we hoped to finish our project on time. I explained this to the men in the working party. At that moment I did not know that my engineer was acquainted with Christian Science. However, after informing the men of my stand for God, I learned that he had attended a Christian Science Sunday School when a boy, but had drifted away from it. This experience was his reintroduction to Christian Science.

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