A Case of Campus Unrest

ROBERT G. CRAMER

Campus unrest can be healed and is being healed through lovefilled Christian Science treatment.

At a special Monday night meeting, the faculty of my college decided that ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) would remain on our campus. A spontaneous student meeting immediately followed. The majority voted to march on the local Army post to protest the killing of students at Kent State University by the National Guard, the President's decision to send troops into Cambodia, as well as the ROTC training. I saw masses of students pouring out of the union building to prepare for the march. I walked up to a crowd of guys and listened for a while to find out what was happening. Mass hysteria, alias animal magnetism, claimed to be in control. I began to tell the guys that with such hysteria no one would be thinking rationally and more trouble would be the only result. Some stayed with me, but most left for the assembly hall where the march was to begin. I remember saying to the remaining fellows that the situation was really dangerous and prayer was the only way by which individuals could ever agree. Then I realized that the most powerful thing I could do was to clear my own thinking.

I excused myself and went to my room, where I had been preparing a reading on world peace for our Christian Science college organization meeting. I continued my study in the Bible and in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Before long I felt very convinced that God was working His purpose out. With one universal cause, God, Love, there could only be one effect even in human experience —the expression of love and harmony. I went to sleep thinking these thoughts.

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