The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-03-05

and harmony restored. BY prayer liz
norance Is replaced with understand
ing. BY prayer we draw near to Coz
and enter into the heritage OF hi
son. prayer is that process by which
false beliefs are destroyed and righ
concepts restored. To know the Truti
IL true prayer. Therefore the Chris
tian Scientist when he prays, does moi
ask God for any material thing. He
seeks TO apprehend what is already
existent and bestowed, He asks ONLY
{ Tor guid1nce, for wisdom, for true
knowledge. So Solomon prayed for
an understanding heart. So Hagar
athlfst In the desert, fearing for the
lie OF her child, prayed the prayer
which opened her blind eyes and re.
/ Ve1Ied the well OF water at hand.
such prayer has never failed, for II
Is the prayer OF spiritual sense, that
conscious. constant. capacity to un.
derstand God, and the spiritual real
man.
Christ Jesus. in teaching how to
pray, said Whatsoever things ye de-
sire when ye pray, believe that We re-
ceiVe them and ye shall have them Z"
True prayer then is comprised in ask
ing and receiving. II is both desire
and realization-desire to know the
VIII OF God, desire to express that
VIII In daily life, desire to overcome
all that Is contrary to good; realiza-
tion OF the unreality of error and the
presence OF God and his manifesto
ton. Prayer in Christian Science in.
cludes the answer. and II this were
not 30. the loving Father would stand
convicted of capriciousness and fav.
oritism. The riches of His kingdom
are available t. all who claim their
divine heritage
A little girl I know furnished an
adequate Illustration of the restora-
tive prayer of Christian Science when
she freed herself from the bondoge
OF sickness thus: 'If God did not
make 1t. how could be it," Very lit.
tie process entered into her argument
against the false sense that seemed to
bind her. but she rejected the erron.
eous concept and realized the alIness
OF good. She sought refuge directly
In the Truth of being and knew that
she and God are inseparable. She did
not wonder what she had done to
bring on the sickness and did not Of |
Ter the false defense that she was still
mortal, she did not think of herself
IS In the flesh, she wasted no time
in self Justification, self pity nor
3elf-condemnation. Her thought /.
turned naturally to God, divine Love. !
her only source OF relief, naturally I
as the flower turns to the sun. and !
she was free! Do you wonder that /
Jesus declared the kingdom of God
open only TO the ehildlike thought?
The highest object of prayer and I
Is ultimate answer is the attainment
u the consciousness OF mans inse-
)arahleness from his Maker-God.
,easeless prayer is the. demand of
scripture. and this Is possible only
is constant right desire and effort to
'e In His image and likeness, to be
present with God of this supreme
oncept of answered prayer, Mrs. Ed
y has written:
oh! Thou hast beard my prayer;
And I am blest,
This is thy high behest:-
Thou here, and everywhere"
mise. Writings, page 3S3.) II
In the presence of Good, there is
o unsatisfied desire.
Christian Science vs.. Suggestive
Therapeutics. 4
1t is now, perhaps, universally con-
eded that Christian Science restores
he sick. There are those, however,
no repeat the ancient mistake of
ttributing the miracles of Christian
ealing to the action of the human I
lind, thru what these critics term {
rental suggestion. In Jesus day the $
nbelievers said This fellow doth I
OF cast out devils but by Beelzebub I
le prince of the devils" but Jesus I
lsclaimed the human mind to be $
lctor in his work and insisted that
Is was the finger OF God" method Il
hrist Jesus fully proved that the
vine Mind alone was the healing \
over in his practice. He said ~ can .
mine own self do nothing" "The I
ather that dwelleth in me, he doeth Il
le works." The Beelzebub method is {
lustr2ied today In the prevalent ma ?
rial methods of treating the SICK i
I'd in the so-called mental sciences. II
he and all such systems rely upon s
% supposed action of the human q
IND. Although in materia medica II
q medium OF matter Is employed,
,vertheless ordinary medical prac. "
'e Is little else than the practice n
mental suggestion. Indeed the n
end of modern medical thought is IL
ward a frank admission of the sug- b
stive character of material medi- p
le. Belief in the method, as we'll as 81
lief in the physician plainly is re-
'site for successful medical prac-
c. have given, experimentally, a OF
rodermatic injection of pure water Il
c patient wild with pain, and have hi
'tched him go quietly to sleep. The f,
Grafton would have been no less an c,
stance of suggestive therapeutics h,
Il injected the actual drug endow- OF
through general belief with pain e.
ieving power. Medicine is constitu. an
in mental consent--it is whatever b,
'rtal mind believes 1t to be. Anc- &C
'tly human belief bestowed upon q
.terial objects supern atural power.
relic OF such medicine" is found m
the modern practice of wearing of
ulets. Many people believe that a st
ckeye carried in the pocket has sh
Wer to prevent rheum atism. 1t is 10