Article September 12, 1964 Issue

Activities for the Armed Services

Members of the Armed Forces desire happiness and success, as civilians do. However, many of them find the discipline of having to clean barracks, shine shoes, press uniforms, and perform numerous other duties a challenge to attaining these goals. The Field workers of Christian Science Activities for the Armed Services are helping military personnel gain happiness and success through applying the truth.

A young Christian Science airman who did not follow this course was overcome by pressures developed during training. In consequence, early one morning he climbed out of a window of his barracks and disappeared. Hours later a Christian Scientist who was serving as a Chaplain at the same Air Force base learned of the airman's absence. Considering the situation an emergency, the Chaplain began to pray for the airman's awakening, guidance, and protection. The next morning on his own initiative the airman reported back and thus avoided being considered away without leave, or AWOL. He was given a very light sentence, a week's restriction.

Shaken by the experience, the airman was awakened to the need for adjusting successfully and happily to military life. As is the case with many young people who enter the Armed Forces, he had seemed unable to discern his identity in the midst of a large number of troops. Often this inability leads to a depreciation of an individual's true worth or to arrogance and a heightened view of self.

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