Article January 12, 1957 Issue

ENLISTMENT

HAZEL A. I. LEAS

MARY BAKER EDDY writes (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." When one accepts Christian Science as his religion and the Church of Christ, Scientist, as his church, he enlists on the side of God, good. If he wishes to receive the blessings available, he must not turn back under any circumstance.

When we enlist in the warfare against error, we need to consider our part in upholding the truth which we profess to believe. We could compare our position to that of a soldier who has enlisted to serve his country. Obedience is required at all times. Sometimes the beliefs of indifference, apathy, and laziness seem to present themselves to the church member so that he finds he is not serving as well as he should. We have some very helpful examples of a soldier of Christ in the writings of the Apostle Paul.

Before his conversion on the road to Damascus, Paul had been an enemy of the followers of Jesus and at that time was on his way to persecute them. He had followed the ways of mortal mind, using carnal weapons, but he was completely won over to the ways of Christ Jesus. Seeing his need and the error of his past ways, Paul wrote to the Romans (7:19), "The good that I would I do not." His faithfulness is shown in the following chapter where he points out the virtue of walking after the Spirit and denying the claims of the flesh.

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