Article June 6, 1931 Issue

"Where he was"

JOHN COOLIDGE

A student of Christian Science, struggling with a phase of error which did not appear to be yielding to his best metaphysical efforts, one evening turned for a few minutes of relaxation to the radio almost at his elbow. Immediately, before the instrument was "tuned" to any particular broadcasting station, there issued from the loud speaker a voice which the student recognized as that of an authorized Christian Science lecturer who had delivered a series of lectures in the city a few weeks previously. The message was at once recognized as supplying the answer to the problem, and was listened to with great gratitude. At the conclusion of the lecture the student referred to a recent copy of the Christian Science Sentinel, containing announcements of authorized lectures by members of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and found that the lecture had been delivered in a city fifteen hundred miles away, and through a radio station he had never before used.

The healing truth taught and demonstrated in Christian Science had come to the student in his human sense of need, even as succor came to the one who fell among thieves, as narrated in the tenth chapter of Luke's Gospel in the parable of the good Samaritan.

The parable of the good Samaritan has long been regarded as a description of a simple act of human kindness or neighborliness to one in need, and as narrated by Jesus in explanation of the word "neighbour." With the understanding of the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures as revealed in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, there comes an enlarged and much more beautiful sense of the true meaning of the neighborliness of the ministering Christ, Truth.

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