Article June 22, 1974 Issue

On the Move

JUDITH ANN HARDY

In his book dealing with today's transient society, author Vance Packard describes the United States as "a nation of strangers." This is also the title of his book. As pointed up in his study, rootlessness or uprootedness, social fragmentation, loss of such values as continuity and permanence, and the unfulfilled need for a sense of place, identity, and community—all these are problems attributed to the high degree of mobility today, problems prevalent in many countries.

What can we do about them? Must we become victims? Certainly not!

To a so-called transient family such as my own, challenges of moving could be frightening indeed without the understanding, brought to us by Christian Science, of Paul's statement: "In him [God] we live and move, and have our being."^{Acts 17:28;}

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