Article October 3, 1970 Issue

Action on Campus

[For young adults]

J. THOMAS BLACK

Yours is the action generation. Students have a tremendous desire to see action taken on long-standing injustices in society. Some students are trying to improve things by protest demonstrations. Others are working more quietly through reason and persuasion. Some do both. Often they carry on in an atmosphere thick with bitterness and frustration. But a great number of college students feel reserved about protest demonstrations and left out by private negotiations. Still, they are keenly interested in progress. They want to be involved in the action. But how can they be?

There is a way. It is through prayer in Christian Science. Scientific prayer is the finest way to get involved in human progress, because it makes basic changes in the way people think.

Thoughts shape actions and actions shape lives. When people think thoughts that are generous, selfless, and wise, they move ahead. But when their thoughts are selfish, greedy, hypocritical, people are apt to fall backward, frustrated. The thoughts of campus leaders and the thoughts of college administrators decide campus policies and events. No event just happens. Mrs. Eddy observes, "Earth's actors change earth's scenes."^{Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 17;}

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