The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18

A lttIult itClC Oli SAAA AA9eANAi Science entitled Christian Science The Evidence by Which We Come tc Know Our True Selves" was de- livered in the Scottish Rite Temple Sunday evening by Herschel P Nunn, c. s. B, of Portland Ore gon. member of the Board of Lee tureship of The Mother Church The First Church of Christ, Sci enlist, Boston, Massachusetts. The lecturer, who was introduced to his audience by Mrs. Alice Bach Coughlin, said in part:
 "A young man of my acquaint- ance was undergoing his prelimi- nary training in the Army Ali Corps. He was making excellent progress save for one thing. He anc his instructor did not get on vel together, situation which finally resulted in my friend being put or the washout list. This meant that if he failed in his flight test witf superior officer, he would be dis missed from the school
 My friend had seen men fai in these tests almost before they left the ground, because of theh fear of the test, but this young man, havirig attended the Chris tian Science Sunday School as boy, knew how to use his knowl- edge of the truth to help himself He decided he would not let feal handle him, and in simple straightforward way began to cor rect his own view of the situation by what is known as Christian Science treatment He knew that God is omnipotent and omnipresent If God is omnipotent, he thought there is no other power. If God is cmnipresent there could be only the presence of good right there where he was.
 Tn few minutes he found the fear had completely left him. He was relaxed and calm Later, while at the controls of the plane, the superior officer asked him why his name was on the washout list, say inng that if all cadets were as con- fident and calm as he was, the problem of training flyers would be a much easier one.
 "As you would guess, our young friend was not washed out, and soon after he and the young in- structor became very good friends. The Christian Science treatment not only destroyed the sense of fear, but it also healed the resent ment and misunderstanding be- tween the two young men.
 Many a young soldier and many a young sailor in our armed forces today is thanking God for an un- derstanding of Christian Science Unless these young men were con- scious of a very present God, an available God, a good God, an all-knowing God, an all-loving God, they would not find the healing and protection which they find in turning to Him in their hour of great need But that is the God they have learned to know in their study of Christian Science, a God that is of purer eyes than to be- hold evil, a God that is the Prin- ciple and substance of their being, with whom is no variableness, nei- ther shadow of turning.
 Tn the Christian Science text book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by the revered Discoverer and Founder of Chris tian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, you will find that this word Principle" is one of the seven synonyms for God which Mrs. Eddy uses in the definition of God on page 465 of this textbook: God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love- She says on this same page Love-" She says on this same page that these terms are synonymous and that they refer to one abso- lute God. They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and wholeness of Diety.'
 "To think of God as Principle brings wonderful comfort, because if God the creator of the universe is known as the divine Principle of His universe then we can think of (,od ac copcriO11S np1v of that