Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-05-26

The following paper on s'Prayer
and its relation to Christian Science"
was read by Mrs. Ella Hensley, at the
first annual meeting of First Church
of Christ, Scientist, of Extra, held
May p, 1898:
And He spake parable unto them to this
end that men ought always to pray and not to
faint" Luke Is, i.
Here we are admonished by our Master 10
pray always. From this arises the question
What is prayers What is it that is required of US
tinual audible prayer would not accord with
the example of Jesus and he was the way show.
er. And it is not reasonable to suppose that
not ask of us any impossible thing. Moreover
He has taught us through His beloved Son not
to follow the example of the heather who think
For our Father knoweth what things we have
need of before we ask Him." God is not a per-
son with whom we must plead in order to OBJ
which is omnipotent and omnipresent aud
which has already bestowed upon us every
blessing If we will only avail ourselves of them.
the will of the Father then we are literally full
filling our masters charge to pray without
ceaSing and such prayer will reap sure reward.
cal healing taught and demonstrated by Jesus
over eighteen centuries ago but which was al
most lost sight of after the lapse of the third
seemed to obscure the spiritual vision of men,
but which through the untiring energy and de.
yyotion OF our dear mother i'll Israel, the Rev.
Mary b. Ii. Eddy, has been again brought to
light in the nineteenth century. 1t is the leayen
which the woman took and hid in the measures
of meal until the whole was leavened, and
science, the whole world is to-day experiencing
Standardization and being transformed into
newness of life. That this science is of God
even the most sceptical after due investigation
cannot conscienciously deny since our Saviour
has said by their fruits We shall know them,''
and the fruits of Christian Science are manifest
which the flesh is heir to, as the natural result
OF the moral elevation of men to the mount of
vision where God is seen to BIO Spirit unchang-
ing and undyng and man his image and like
ness having dominion over all materiality.
These demonstrations are signs which unmis-
takably follow according to the degree of our
understanding of the truth as revealed in Sci
ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures by
Rev; Mary Eddy, and which is identical with
the teachings of Jesus.
''And all things whatsoever We shall ask in
prayer, believing, We shall receive
What are the demonstrations of Christian
Science PIT answers to prayers of those who be-
Heve. Believe this promise to be the promise
of the God who is Truth. Believe that God fin
,shed his creation E, and looked upon it and
were made by Him and that without Him was
not anything made that was ma de thus exclud-
ing all evil, sin disease and death which certain
ny h fonld not nave been part of Gods creation
Thus error is proven to be nonentity Having
no origin it has no existence except as an erro-
neous belief.
The practice of Christian Science necessitates
continual watchfulness and striving to keep in
the straight and narrow way which leads to
life everlasting. This is not accomplished by
following the doctrines of men but by earnestly
desiring and seeking the knowledge which will
be revealed to all earnest seekers. The prayer
of Christian Scientists which result in the heal
ing of the sick offered with the firm belief
that God can and does heal the sick whenever
men are ready to concede to the Divine will and
pray Thy will, not mine, be done or in other
words help us to realize that God is all in all,
and there is none beside Him, no power opposed
to Spirit which could possibly create discord in
the realm of eternal harmony. Such prayer is
the basis of Christian Science demonstration