Article July 12, 1958 Issue

Activities for the Armed Services

Preventive and Curative

The mission of Christian Science Activities for the Armed Services is not limited to the comforting, reforming, and healing of Christian Scientists in the Armed Forces. It also aims to prevent unhappiness, sin, disease, and want. This twofold objective accords with these words of Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 369): "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood."

Illustrative of the preventive art of Christian Science in Armed Services Activities is the experience of a soldier stationed in New Jersey. This soldier was making plans with a friend to spend the week end in New York City but found himself unable to go because of military duties. When explaining his misfortune to a Christian Science Minister, he said that he was so disappointed and resentful that he was going AWOL.

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