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 By this it will be understood that himself affirmed, the son of God. In Science and Health (page 4S2), we read: Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man." Jesus unselfishness, purity and spirituality so endowed him with godliness that he was worthy to bear the title Messiah, or Christ. Again (Science and Health, page 5S3), Mrs. Eddy has defined Christ as .The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to de- stroy incarnate error" With Jesus the Christ was so preponderant that when the human cried out Let this cup pass,'' Jesus was able to say mot my will but thine be done" Let the nor tai disappear and the Christ appear as the representative of divinity. It was this Christ that caused Jesus to say If r. (the fleshly concepD 'go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you'-the restorative Truth wiI not become operative in your con- ciousness; in other words, you will continue to cling to my human person. ality and will fail to grasp the divine Principle which governs it.
 Christian Science teaches personal salvation through all Christ Jesus lived to do; that each individual is to work out his own salvation from all error by the example Jesus furnished in his demonstration of the Christ. Christian Science accepts the esSeftialS of Chris tianity found in the ScripturaI rec ord of the life and teaching oi Christ Jesus. but restores and emphasizes the spiritual import and observance of the doctrine he taught and ordinances he established. Above all, Christian Sci ence teaches that the essentials of Christianity involve individual practice more than profession.
 Prayer
 The modus operandi by which Chris tian Science fulfills it's restorative min istry is prayer. By prayer the sickness is healed, sin is destroyed and har- mony restored. By prayer ignorance is replaced with understanding. By prayer we draw near to God and enter into the heritage of his son. Prayer is that process by which false beliefs are destroyed and right concepts restored. To know the Truth is true prayer. Therefore the Christian Scientist when he prays, does not ask God for any material thing. He seeks to apprehend what is already existent and bestowed. He asks only for guidance. for wis dom, for true knowledge. So Solomon prayed for an understanding heart. 90 Hagar athirst in the desert, fearing for the life of her child, prayed the prayer which opened her blind eyes and revealed the we'll of water at hand. Such prayer has never failed for it 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 ye re- ceive them, and ye shall have them True prayer then is comprised in ask ing and receiving. It is both desire and realization-desire to know the wfll of God, desire to express that will in daily life, desire to overcome all that is con- trary to good; realization of the un- reality of error and the presence of God and his manifestation. Prayer in Christian Science includes the answer and if this were not so, the loving Father would stand convicted of ca priciousness and favoritism. The riches of His kingdom are available to all who claim their divine heritage.
 A little girl know furnished an ade- quate illustration of the restorative prayer of Christian Science when she freed herself from the bondage of sick ness thus: If God did not make it, how could I be it?" Very little process entered into her argument against the false sense that seemed to bind her, but she rejected the erroneous concept and realized the a1lness of good She sought refuge directly in the Truth or
 
 She did not wonder what she had done to bring on the sickness and did not offer the false defense that she was still mortal, she did not think of herself as in the flesh, she wasted no time in self-justification, self-pity nor elf-condemnation- Her thought turned naturally to God, divine Love, her only source of relief, naturally 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 child like thought?
 The highest object of prayer and it's ultimate answer is the attainment of the consciousness of mans inseparable- ness from his Maker-God. Ceaseless prayer is the demand of Scripture. and this is possible only as constant right desire and effort to be in His image and likeness. to be present with God Or this supreme concept of answered prayer, Mrs. Eddy has written:
 "Ohi Thou hast heard my prayer;
 And I am blest.
 This is thy high behest:-
 Thou here. and everywhere
 (Misc- Writings, page 3S5)
 In the presence of Good, there is no desire
 Christian Science vs. Suggestive
 Therapeutics.
 It is now, perhaps, universally con. ceded that Christian Science restores the sick. There are those however who repeat the ancient mistake of at tributing the miracles of Christian healing to the action of the human mind. through what these critics term mental suggestion. In Jesus day the said: This fellow doth not cast out devils.", but Jesus dis claimed the human mind to be factor in his work and insisted that his was the finger of Cod method. Christ Jesus fully proved that the divine Mind alone was the healing power in his practice. He said T can of mine own self do nothing" ..The Father that dWelleth in me. he dOeth the