A Christian Science period in the "Columbia West Coast Church of the Air" series was conducted from Station KSFO, San Francisco, California, on Sunday morning, October 15, 1939, at eight o'clock, by Justice Douglas L. Edmonds, a former First Reader of a Christian Science church. This program was radiocast under the auspices of the Committee on Publication for Northern California and had the approval of The Christian Science Board of Directors. Mrs. Eileen Elman Becker, the soloist, was assisted by Theodore Strong, organist.

Justice Edmonds opened the program by reading from the Bible as follows: Psalms 1:1–3; Psalms 119:12, 27, 34, 35, 44, 45, 97–100, 142; Matthew 4:23, 24; Matthew 5:1, 2, 17, 18; Luke 10:1–3, 8, 9, 16–19; and from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: 231: 12–25; 270: 14–21, 31–5; 110:25–31; 111:6–14; 271:11–25; 272:28–32.

The program continued with the solo, "Great Peace Have They Which Love Thy Law" by Rogers. Justice Edmonds then read an address substantially as follows:

Those unacquainted with the teachings of Christian Science usually have two questions concerning it. In the first place they ask, "What is Christian Science?" Next they want to know, "What can Christian Science do for me?"

On page 1 of her book "Rudimental Divine Science" Mary Baker Eddy has defined Christian Science as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony."

The religion of Christian Science is based upon the Bible. It asserts that divine law is exactly the same today as in the past, and that it is available here and now to meet humanity's requirements. In his epistle to the early Christians, James declared they must be "doers of the word, and not hearers only;" that is, that they must prove their faith by healing the sick. Christian Scientists accept this command and link precept with proof. Indeed, the Church of Christ, Scientist, was organized for the purpose of restoring healing as an essential part of the Christian religion.

One is a doer of the Word, according to Christian Science, when he claims the reality of God's presence and power through prayer, which is the means whereby spiritual law may be utilized in human experience. Such prayer affirms the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God and is based upon spiritual understanding. It is the intelligent affirmation that one can never be beyond the influence of divine law. It is an expression of gratitude for the loving care of an all-wise and all-powerful Father. It implies and rests upon the relation of God and man as Father and son; hence it establishes one's conscious unity with God and opens one's thought to the good already conferred by God, who is Love. This realization of God's allness and man's oneness with Him brings healing, which is the sign of Immanuel, or "God with us."

There is no mystery about such spiritual healing, and it is not confined to the liberation of mankind from physical difficulties. Indeed, there is no circumstance in which God's law is not entirely sufficient to meet human need. The writer of one of the Psalms described God as the omnipotent One, "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth isrenewed like the eagle's" (Psalms 103:3–5). Continuing, the Psalmist declared, "The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed."

Christian Science, therefore, offers to the business man, the factory worker, the housewife, the farmer—indeed, to one and all—freedom from the bondage of fear, discouragement, and failure in every activity, as well as from sickness. It maintains that the brotherhood of man is not a mere figure of speech, but a spiritual reality, which is a necessary consequence of the fatherhood of God, and that difficulties which appear very real exist only in human belief. On the other hand, it teaches that the moment we acknowledge that the universe and man are, in reality, spiritual, and governed only by divine law, we cannot fail to receive infinite blessings.

How may this be accomplished? Jesus declared that the first requirement for one endeavoring to bring himself within the operation of God's law is to love God with all one's heart. Next, he said, as a necessary corollary, is the need to love one's neighbor as oneself. We love God supremely only when we refuse to acknowledge any other power but that of good, and declare that evil, having no Principle or rule of action, has no influence over us. A spiritual understanding of the law of God corrects not only a belief that one has a sick body, but also that he is unsuccessful, or that he is out of employment, or that as a child of God he can lack any good thing. When we understand that, in reality, man is spiritual, the image and likeness of God, and is governed by God; that his Life is God, and that all of his activities must be good, the world becomes a very different place from what it appears to be when considered on the basis of materiality alone.

Events of recent years have proved very conclusively that even according to material standards "things" of themselves do not bring happiness, and that confidence and assurance cannot be bought with money. On the contrary, an understanding of God as Principle enables one to bring into his experience the peace and security which are the heritage of His children. God is never absent, and we need only turn to Him to receive the blessings and protection of His love.

Recently I stood overlooking a great valley. Hundreds of feet below me lay a vast expanse of sand and salt beds shimmering in the desert heat. Not a sign of life could be seen. Some miles away a great mountain range rose crest upon crest to one peak, white with snow, which towered above everything else. As I looked at that mountain peak reflecting the light of the sun, the desolation of the scene below passed out of the picture, leaving only the compelling beauty and grandeur of the mountain standing against the sky. But when I looked again into the valley I lost the inspiration of the mountain and could see only the desolation of almost unending miles of sand. However, the mountain had not changed its position. I had only turned away from it to a less lovely scene.

We should endeavor always to keep our thought on the shining peak of God's allness, thereby shutting out of our experience the drab pictures of human belief. Yet, if we should seem to dwell temporarily upon the evidence of the physical senses and allow ourselves to contemplate the conditions resulting from material thinking, as if evil had power, we have only to lift our thought to God again to bring into our lives the manifestations of His loving care for His children.

The solo, "Teach Me, O Lord," by Hamblen, was then sung, after which Justice Edmonds closed the program by reading the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth verses of the twenty-ninth chapter of I Chronicles.