Article April 8, 1961 Issue

Activities for the Armed Services

Study Rooms

After teaching, preaching, and healing all day, Jesus withdrew to seek spiritual refreshment and rest. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, also withdrew to be alone with God and to seek His guidance, enlightenment, and strength.

When undergoing recruit or basic training, those in the Armed Forces find it particularly difficult to gain privacy. Usually enlisted personnel have less opportunity to be by themselves than have officers. Recently we received a report of a serviceman who found it so difficult to study Christian Science in his barracks because of the noise and counteractivities there that he drove to the nearest town, which was thirty miles away, rented a room, and returned to it regularly to read.

Upon learning that Christian Scientists like to withdraw from the busyness of military installations and to have quiet places for study, thought, and prayer, many Chaplains in the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force have made rooms available for these purposes. These quiet rooms, or study rooms, as they are called, are supplied with Bibles, the writings of our Leader, and other authorized Christian Science literature, which are provided by The Mother Church.

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