One hears much these days regarding enlistment and service, and rightly so, because every good cause, if it is to prosper, must have enthusiastic and conscientious enlisters. There is none more alert as to what constitutes true enlistment and consequent service thereunder than the student of Christian Science. Whatever the physical requirements may be, and wherever he is commanded to go, the Christian Scientist realizes that he is ever in the service of God.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 450,) "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good." Realizing the omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience of God, infinite Spirit, or Mind, the student of Christian Science stands ever ready to do his duty, always holding to the spiritual facts concerning service. This consciousness of the true facts concerning enlistment and service furnishes protection and heals those phases of error, such as fear, doubt, and anxiety, which may attempt to inject themselves into his thinking.
Christian Scientists, then, are enlisted. Their enlistment is for the period necessary to destroy belief in evil. Their position is in the front line of scientific endeavor; there they must remain until the dream of slavery, despotism, greed, hatred, and intolerance is annihilated, and sin, sickness, and death lose their hold on the human race. In the Christian Science textbook, Mrs. Eddy admonishes (p. 37): "Hear these imperative commands: 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect!' 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature!' 'Heal the sick!'" Jesus taught his disciples what constitutes perfection, how to preach the good news of the kingdom of God, and how to heal the sick. He sent them unto "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" to preach that the kingdom of heaven, harmony, true bliss, is attainable here and now through spiritual understanding. That the original disciples and the seventy, as well as many others, carried out these commands, there is abundant Biblical proof. It must be acknowledged that today Christian Scientists throughout the world are in a measure obeying these same commands.
