Article January 8, 1966 Issue

Activities for the Armed Services

For nearly a year before leaving the United States for Vietnam, a sergeant studied Christian Science for help with a personal problem. Beside occasionally visiting a Christian Science Minister for the Armed Services, he began to study the Lesson-Sermon, found in the Christian Science Quarterly, and to attend church regularly. He and his wife placed their three small boys in the Sunday School.

While serving in Vietnam, the sergeant was wounded twice, but these wounds only aroused anger and resentment. They did not awaken him to seek healing through Christian Science. Then he was stricken with pneumonia, and the Army medical verdict was that he would not recover.

When the sergeant learned this verdict, he really was awakened to pray for himself. Recalling some of the truths he had learned in Christian Science before leaving the United States, he recognized he did not need to die. Then he reached out to God. He clung to the Lord's Prayer, "the scientific statement of being" on page 468 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and verses from the ninety-first Psalm. The petition (Matt. 6:10), "Thy will be done," was especially helpful. He was healed and gained a completely new concept of man as God's beloved child.

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