Article May 9, 1959 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE SERVICEMAN

EDGAR ISAAC NEWGASS

The student of Christian Science serving in the Armed Forces, whether or not he be an ex-Sunday School pupil or a church member, should ask himself these questions: Am I a serviceman proposing to use Christian Science only to harmonize my experience and to alleviate unpleasant conditions? Or am I a student of Christian Science resolved to continue to learn more and more of divine Science and to demonstate it wherever I find myself located and whatever I am engaged upon?

In essence, the serviceman who is a student of Christian Science is in exactly the same position as the businessman, factory worker, actor, artist, writer, and homemaker who are Christian Scientists. Like these, he must repeatedly remind himself that his chief concern is to manifest God, divine Principle, in the harmonizing of his own life; to express perfect Mind in relation to whatever tasks he is engaged upon; and not so much try to see others as ideas of Love, as initially know them to be so.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 560), "The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man."

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