The station announcer said: Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is Columbia's pleasure to present another program in the seventh consecutive year of the "Church of the Air" series. The service today is given under the auspices of the Christian Science Committee on Publication for the State of New York, with the approval of The Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and is coming to you from Station WABC, New York City. The broadcast is conducted by Mr. Harry C. Browne, a former First Reader of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City. The subject of Mr. Browne's address is "Working with God." The soloist on the program is Miss Josephine Antoine, assisted by Mr. Thomas Richner, organist. I now give the program the hands of Mr. Browne.

Mr. Browne opened the program by reading selections from the Bible as follows: Psalms 8:1, 3–6; 90:16, 17; 40:5; John 5:2, 5, 8, 9, 16, 17, 19, 20; 6:27–29; II Corinthians 9:6–8; II Timothy 3:14–17. And from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: 275:6–9, 14–23; 519:28–2; 259:23–24; 79:19–22; 18:3–9; 346:2–5; 263:1–19; 261:31–8; 326:3–8, 16–21.

After Hymn No. 354 in the Christian Science Hymnal had been sung, Mr. Browne read an address substantially as follows:

There is a vast difference between what the world calls work and what Jesus meant when he said, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." From an early age Jesus was about his Father's business. During the years of his public ministry he constantly taught the truth about God, directed human thought towards man made in God's image and likeness, and uncovered the unreality and falsity of mortal existence. In demonstration of the truth he taught, Jesus healed the sick, reformed the sinner, raised the dead, and overcame evil in whatever disguise it was presented to him, until at last his thought became wholly spiritual and he rose above mortal sight. In Genesis it is recorded: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.... Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." Jesus understood this spiritual, perfect creation, and he worked to replace false human concepts with the truth. That Jesus expected others to follow his example, and work as he worked, is shown by his declaration, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

When it is learned that man is the idea of God, it is seen that because of this relationship man is continually employed in expressing Godlike qualities. As we learn something of what God is and of what man is, our daily work takes on an entirely new aspect. We approach our work with faith in our ability to do it to the glory of God. As we follow the commands to love God supremely and our neighbor as ourselves, we shall have revealed to us opportunities for service that were unknown before. What a comforting thought to know that God is our intelligence, guiding and directing us; that God is our strength, empowering us with vitality! It is a clearer knowledge of these facts that makes our daily work more joyous.

Discouragement comes from ignorance or doubt of our ability to apprehend and use the spiritual ideas God imparts. False education, based on a material sense of creation, has led us away from health and holiness, and the true understanding of God's creation will restore the harmony we seem to have lost. Then we shall work with a greater sense of joy and freedom. There can be no effect without a cause, and if the cause is perfect, then the effect must be perfect. This understanding destroys the works of evil: overcomes dishonesty with honesty; lust with chastity; unkindness with kindness; sickness with health; and failure with success. We are liberated and express greater efficiency and ability as we learn not to be afraid of sickness, sin, failure, climate, heredity, contagion, or accidents; as we understand that we are not under the so-called laws of sin, disease, and death, but are under "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus."

Christian Science teaches that man has no mind of his own apart from God, and that he reflects God, who is the Mind or intelligence of man and of the universe. So in reality we can have no mind or volition separate from God. You remember the advice of Solomon in the book of Proverbs: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." We should, then, seek God's guidance in all our human affairs, business, social, and religious.

In this earthly experience we bring to bear upon human problems the truth of being, and as we prove the presence and power of God, and are "faithful over a few things," we shall gradually find ourselves being made rulers "over many things" through the operation of His spiritual laws. Ills of all kinds, mental, physical, moral, and financial, must yield to the understanding of God. David glimpsed something of the greatness and allness of God when he said: "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name."

Jesus' command, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," is accepted by Christian Scientists, as are all his teachings. Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 254): "The human self must be evangelized. This task God demands us to accept lovingly to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual." How sorely does the world today need the true sense of the nature of God and His creation! And this spiritual sense can be gained as individuals see the material sense of existence to be unreal and false, and devote time to the study and practice of the laws of God, which alone can usher in the kingdom of heaven on earth.

In closing, let me quote these words by Mrs. Eddy, contained in a message to a branch church (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 188): "As you work, the ages win; for the majesty of Christian Science teaches the majesty of man. When it is learned that spiritual sense and not the material senses convey all impressions to man, man will naturally seek the Science of his spiritual nature, and finding it, be God-endowed for discipleship."

Following Mr. Browne's address, Hymn No. 221 in the Christian Science Hymnal was sung.

Mr. Browne closed the program by reading I Corinthians 15:58: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."