Article December 19, 1959 Issue

WHY AM I HERE?

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

HOWARD H. IRWIN

Under the present world situation of tensions, pressures, and uncertainties, it appears that military preparedness is the wisest human course to follow. The obligation to serve in the Armed Forces falls on Christian Scientists just as it does on all other citizens. But more than other citizens, the Christian Scientist is equipped by his religion to understand and meet the challenging and aggressive suggestions presented by military service.

One suggestion which comes frequently to the young Christian Scientist is this: What am I, a Christian Scientist, doing in military service?

In Ecclesiastes an incident is related which, when studied in the light of Christian Science, enables the serviceman to find one answer to this question and so to handle effectively the suggestion, "Why am I here?" We read (Eccl 9:14,15): "There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man."

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