Article November 12, 1960 Issue

Activities for the Armed Services

In "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 235): "This Science is ameliorative and regenerative, delivering mankind from all error through the light and love of Truth. It gives to the race loftier desires and new possibilities. It lays the axe at the root of the tree of knowledge, to cut down all that bringeth not forth good fruit; 'and blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.'"

A Christian Science Minister for the Armed Services reports that he has witnessed numerous wonderful examples of the healing and regenerative power of Christian Science and has been privileged to associate with many young men who were testing their spiritual armor for the first time. He writes that to have been with them as they have learned the truths of Christian Science and to have seen them demonstrate their way out of all kinds of situations have been inspirational. This Minister has been continually impressed by the redemptive power brought to bear upon the human consciousness by the study and application of Christian Science.

Illustrative of this point is the experience of a soldier at the Army installation visited by this Minister. Although reared in Christian Science, this serviceman had drifted away from the truth in his high school and college years. His yielding to such phases of materialism as smoking and drinking evidenced chinks in his spiritual armor. While in college he drank heavily. With complete honesty he told the Minister that he had not had anything to do with Christian Science for years and had felt that he did not need or want it.

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