Article November 11, 1961 Issue

Activities for the Armed Services

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901, Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 11), "To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice." Examples of the truth of this statement abound in the reports that Christian Science Activities for the Armed Services receives from the field workers of the department.

A Minister in the southwestern part of the United States reports assisting the wife of an officer with many problems that arose because her husband drank to excess. These difficulties continued for approximately two years. Then the officer became "poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3) and in meekness began to "hunger and thirst after righteousness" (verse 6). That he was "filled" and was enabled to "see God" (verse 8) is evident, for he stopped drinking and joined a Christian Science church.

A Christian Science Minister in New England writes about a serviceman who ridiculed his sister every time she presented Christian Science to him. However, at her recommendation he visited The Mother Church on a Wednesday afternoon and remained in Boston to attend the Wednesday evening testimony meeting. What he saw and heard so impressed him that in meekness he bought a copy of the Bible and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy and began to attend the midweek meetings held at the installation where he was stationed and the services of a nearby Christian Science branch church. Now he is earnestly and gratefully studying Christian Science and practicing it to the best of his understanding.

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