Article March 2, 1946 Issue

"I read you loud and clear"

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

FLORENCE A. ELLIOTT

In the Air Corps of the Allied Nations the graphic statement, "I read you loud and clear," is an expression used to designate perfect radio contact, when the transmitter is putting out at full strength, the receiver is properly tuned, and there is no outside interference.

An Army chaplain used this knowledge in his unusual briefing of the Seventh Army Air Force Heavy Bomber Group based at Palau. A delayed International News Service dispatch of November 20, 1944, quoted the chaplain's inspiring words which were passed on to the bomber crews in his last-minute check-up: "Remember, men, that while you're up there tomorrow, the Lord will have His receiving and sending station open at all times, on all channels and frequencies, and you are free to tune in on His channel or pray as often as you desire. There is no radio silence with God!"

This incontrovertible fact is firmly supported by Christian Science, which accepts the Bible statement (John 1:1), "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." as applicable to all times and situations. But for perfect reception of the Word, our mental tuning must be exact. What is this tuning? A realization of the perfection of God and of man as His image and likeness. Nothing short of acknowledged perfection gives perfect reception. To guard this precious channel against all forms of so-called interference is the challenge which each of us must accept. Nor is there any reason that we should shrink from this challenge, for we have full and adequate defense in the simple and basic truth, which even a child can readily comprehend, namely, that God, Spirit, is All.

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