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prayer Of faith which. the Bible says
shall save the sick.
Christian Science, upon the other
hand, teaches its adherents TO make
the prayer Of realization. the prayer
of affirmation. Christian Science
teaches that God is Infinite good, and
that it is wholly unnecessary TO beg
Of petition infinite good, to manifest
coed to US, for infinite good cannot
do anything else except manifest good
to every creature IL one should lei
fall an object il would be absurd to
beg or petition the law Of gravitation
to operate. That law would operate
automatically, and would pull the OBJ,
jeet down TO the first obstruction.
Christian Science teaches that God is
Mind. or Principle. and that Mind
governs through spiritual Law, which
law is operating throughout the entire
universe, and Is Law OF infinite good,
and is nianifesting good and nothing
but good ceaselessly 10 every human
being. sstst5 a. IS
one person says il that is true,
why then. do people seem to have so
little good. and 50 much that is not
good? Let as look at that for mo-
ment. II one drops an object the law
OF gravitation win pull It down to the
first obstruction. but IL the obstruc-
ton be removed, 1t will pull 1t down
further and further as the obstruc-
a ~ Ia
every obstruction were removed, the
law OF gravitation would then have its
perfect work, and would pull the OBJ
ject to the center of the earth. That
Is precisely what happens through the
operation of spiritual law. That law
is operating in human consciousness,
Just az far as the distractions will
permit, which distractions are mental
qualities superstition, false beliefs.
human win and the like. AS they are
removed. the spiritual law will operate
further and further IN human con-
seriousness, bringing good deeper and
deeper into human experience, until
at last, when every such obstruction
shall have been removed; when the
human consciousness shall have been
completely evangelical by truth, and
every mortal thought shall have been
brought into obedience to Christ, as
the Scripture commands, then the
spiritual law will have its perfect
work in human consciousness In that
day men and women will walk the
earth free from every evil condition,
no longer in bondage to sickness, sin,
poverty. old age or death, but shall
then be found in the conscious pos
session of that dominion which God
said in the beginning belongs to man.
As each one shall work out this
question for himself, striving to ar
rive at that conclusion which shall
best satisfy him as ito which is the
true theory Of prayer, one other thing
can be mentioned to aid the inquir-
er in reaching that conclusion, and
that is that through the Christian Sci
ence method of prayer hundreds Of
thousands of sick people have been
healed Is not this great array of
proof by demonstration at least suffi-
Gent to put every thinking person up
ON inquiry, lest the Christian Science
theory of prayer may not, in fact
be the true theory is
Every pefs9m who prays desires. to
know how to make true prayer. All
people desire good and not evil, and,
IN the MAN, all people are equally
honest Ia their religious affiliations,
for no one would knowingly. deceive
himself about so important a matter.
The only reason; therefore, why peo-
pie are grouped together in differffent
religious organizations is because they
honestly believe that through the or
ganization to which they belong they
win be most likely to gain the good
which they SO earnestly desire Since.i
then. through Christian Science pray
er. so many people have found health,
contentment and peace, it is plain that
sOpner or later. every, thinking pers
son will desire TO know how to pray
as Christian Science teaches
Creation.
is great confusion of belief, is the sub.
ject of creation. There is perhaps no.
subject connected with religion, or
in the Bible, about which
there is greater misunderstanding
than there is about creation 1t is
how many people there are.
who do not even know that there are.
two accounts of the creation in the.
Bible. The first account is to be found
In the first chapter of Genesis. and
extends down to and includes the
third verse of the second chapter. Be-
ginning with. the fourth verse of the
second chapter. there follows another
account that is wholly different from
the first.
In the first account, we are told
that God created the universe, and
that everything made by Him was
good, and lastly. that He created man, ]
In His image. and after His own like
ness, and that he was good; while. in
the second account, we have the alleg-
Dry about God coming down to earth,
and mixing up dust and calling it man.
Then follows the story of Adam and
Eve, and the Garden of Eden, and wei
are told that a deep sleep fell upon
Adam, and that then sin appeared,
ind that brother murdered brother,
and from that day to this that the