To overcome evil, sickness, and death is a commitment of all Christian Scientists, and especially of class-taught students. Surely it is a commitment worthy of total dedication. How does one join the ranks of the committed ones?
"Ranks" is not used here in a military sense. Mrs. Eddy speaks of enlistment in this way: "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. Sickness to him is no less a temptation than is sin, and he heals them both by understanding God's power over them."Science and Health, p. 450;
When and how do we enlist? For each of us there is a point of realization that Christian Science is the way of life we want to follow—that in the teachings of this religion is to be found salvation from all evil and the solution of all human problems, not only for ourselves and our loved ones but for all mankind. There stirs in us a genuine desire to learn more of this Science, to support the Church of Christ, Scientist, to help our fellowman. This divinely directed impulsion should be cherished and nurtured at every stage.
