The station announcer made the statement: "It is Columbia's pleasure to present another program in its fourth successive year of the Church of the Air series devoted to nation-wide religious broadcasts representing four major faiths and ten denominations. The Christian Science program today is coming to you from Station CFRB, in Toronto, Canada, and is approved by The Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. The broadcast is conducted by Gavin W. Allan, for many years a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship. The subject of Mr. Allan's address is 'The Unity of Men and Nations.' We now give the program into the hands of Mr. Allan."

Two hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal were sung by the soloist, the first being No. 163. Following this, Mr. Allan read an address substantially as follows:

There is a story which has been told about one of the great jurists of England: "As a member of a committee appointed to draw up resolutions of congratulation to the Queen, he discovered that his colleagues had begun a resolution with these words: Being conscious as we are of our own defects ... 'No, no,' said the judge, 'that will never do. We must not lie to Her Majesty. Change it to: Being conscious as we are of one another's defects.' "

The human tendency is to be more conscious of the "mote" in our brother's eye than of the "beam" in our own. Is it any wonder Burns wrote:

To see ourselves as others see us, while it might check some of our foolish conceits, would be by no means an ideal prospect. The ideal view would be to see ourselves and others as God intended us to be, perfect expression of Him.

Jesus did this. He saw beyond the mask of personality and beheld the individuality, the real man, God's likeness. Jesus' view of man's real nature has been clearly set forth by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 476), thus: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy."

Were we to trace humanity's troubles to their source we should find that they are based primarily upon ignorance—ignorance of what is really true about God and man. Were that overcome there would remain no cause for discord. Also, when we of various faiths and nationalities come to understand that our source is one—God—and our duty is to serve humanity, and unite to fulfill that common service, we shall meet, and meet as friends. The man-made divisions of creeds and nationalities will be overpassed, and

Individuality, be it personal or national, must be respected. The concern of religion is humanity and its needs. In fact the whole of religion may be outlined in a few words: serve God and serve mankind.

A wise man has said, "Where there is no vision the people perish." "Perish" means "go to pieces," like a doll that has been out in the rain overnight and has become "undone." The pieces are all there, but they have lost cohesion. Today we shall stand together and act as a unit only as we keep our vision, our world vision, the brotherhood of man.

Democracy is more than representative government. Democracy is based on the spiritual fact that all men are created equal; that man is being equipped by God moment by moment with sufficient intelligence to see the right, and power to do it; and that each individual possesses the ability to assist in the establishment and maintenance of righteous government. Democracy has been defined by someone as: "good men, self-governed." But what is self-government? Mrs. Eddy has defined it thus in Science and Health (p. 106): "Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love." Is it not clear then that our responsibility toward government does not begin with, nor end at, the ballot box?

These days we hear a good deal about war between nations being unavoidable or inevitable. Let us ask ourselves some questions. Are pride and fear inevitable? Are greed and hatred unavoidable? Are ignorance and stupidity inevitable? Are not these the sole causes of war? Again, Has war ever really solved a problem between nations? Have not adjustments been arranged afterward by a few men around a table? Why not then in all reason have the round table first?

The most necessary and effective disarmament is mental disarmament. In the measure, therefore, that men are "transformed by the renewing" of their minds, in the measure that they "let this mind be in [them] which was also in Christ Jesus," will the causes of war be done away. And when you and I do this there will be fewer warmakers in the world.

We are taught in the Scriptures to abhor evil and to love our enemies. Can both of these commands be obeyed at the same time? Not if man and evil are one. But they are not one. Man, rightly considered, is God's likeness. Evil is God's unlikeness. It is therefore possible for us to love the person while we condemn the evil he may have committed; and our love for him, appealing to and awakening the good in him, may bring about repentance and reform. Evil sometimes, claims to have more power over men than either fear of punishment or hope of reward. But it cannot withstand forgiving love. That is the one weapon with which we can make sure headway against even intentional offenses. That was Jesus' way.

This does not mean that we should ignore or overlook evil. It means that we should look it over from the right viewpoint; that we should deal with it as Jesus taught us to do; that we should prove that evil cannot make us either its servants or its victims; that we should overcome it with good.

Fellow Americans and Canadians, let us march together toward that wider outlook envisaged by Mrs. Eddy in her poem (Poems, p. 11):

Mr. Allan then read from the Bible as follows: Matthew 5:43—48; 22:35—40; Luke 10:25—37. And from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: 276:4—11; 467:3—16; 340:15—29. The soloist then sang Hymn No. 49 (verses 1, 2, and 4). Mr. Allan pronounced the benediction from Romans 15:5, 6.