Arizona republican., 1921-03-30
By Aln1an

only man, the man God made, tne man l who is forever. an expression or
 emanation of God, to whom belongs
 dominion over all material things.
 Prayer is as infallible. as certain, | as definite and as irresistible as God Himself. for it is God, divine Mind | with us. expressing Himself through the Mind of Christ or through spir-
 itual thinking. Such prayer knows
 no failure and no fear. It honors God in a way that poor attempt
 to change or influence God can never do. Prayer recognizes and abides by Gods allness and evils nothingness. This is the prayer Jesus described
 when he stated. in accord with all true Science. all true theology. and all true medicine, 'ye shall know the truth. and the truth shall make you free" (John viii. 32.) Prayer de-
 mands absolute lifelong consecration of thought. desire. activity. intellect and purpose to spiritual law and di- vine facts. It teaches us to acknowi-
 edge God In all our ways. and to re- l cognize no other source or cause. | Prayer demonstrated is heaven here
 and now within us. for it includes in
 itself all health, ell holiness, happi- ness, peace and assurance. Such
 prayer is Gods law to every condition,
 for it is the very presence and power
 of divine Mind. God
 The Purpose of True Prayer
 It might be well to explain that
 Christian Scientists make much of the
 healing of disease for the same reason that Jesus did, and that is because
 the healing of disease through spiri- l tual means is accepted as a clear and indisputable proof of Immanuel. or God with us. AS a matter of fact, Christian Science teaches that what
 humanity really needs to be healed of primarily, is its faith in things
 material or of its material thinking. Every sin. every disease, every sor-
 row. every material condition, every
 cata strophe, every phase of fleeting
 mortality, Christian Science declares to be but an effect Of material think
 ing, or of the carnal mind, and Chris tian Science therefore proposes to
 heal the individual and the world of these things by first correcting their material thinking, or their false material theories, with the Mind of
 Christ. or with spiritual thinking. The real mission of Christian Science.
 therefore, is to destroy mems false
 faith in things material by demon strating beyond a doubt the allness
 and supremacy of Spirit or of the divine Mind. which is God.
 
 , tian Scientists prayer does not sue . ceed because of a merely intellectual I attempt to know the Truth at the mo- ment of prayer. but it succeeds be- , cause of his lifelong struggle to Hn- F derstand God and spiritual being ana to utilize divine Science In every
 event of life. Even the casual thinker
 will see that there is no connection
 between such prayer which under - ! ttN ,..ft Ss<1 presence of power of the Mind which , is God and the pititul attempts of mesmerism, or of hypnotism. to heal : men, Christian Science healing dis
 pels the mortal or mistaken sick or r. shining sense which claims to bind . man, and proves the divine fact that y God, divine Mind, is the only Mind
 and that this Mind alone governs and [ controls man.
 , ChristIikenesst as Demonstrated ir . the Prayer of . Christian Scientist f Christ Jesus, the master Metaphy- p scian, when he made the statement , Greater love hath no man than this s that a man lay down his life for his v friends" (John xv- 13). gave an ex- . act rule by which men could prove . their Christlikeness, or their willing T ness and ability to demonstrate di- [ vine law. Christian Science therefore Q teaches that in proportion as a man unders lands the allness and the in $ finite reality of Spirit God divine f Mind. and the temporal nature oi e material existence. in proportion as $ he strives to lay down false sense oi ,. life az material and finite, and to at- r tain his true life as Gods expression e wholly spiritual or divinely mental. iu = that proportion is he truly adhering tc S Christ Jesus teaching. In fact IS g !. man banishes from his thinking the f qualities of the carnsl mind such as e idolatry, hatred. wrath. and many |. other phases of the carnal mind, al r of which Paul describes as the works a of the flesh" Gal VI and as he at. 9 tains in his daily life those qualities l Of thought which Paul describes al s. the fruit of the Spirit Gal v..' d then he Is truly laying down the false = sense of life. This process of spiritua P thinking and living demonstrates thu Il infinite presence and power of th' s, divine Mind, God, before which tn, l so- called carnaI mind. with it's fals, l. mental conditions and Its materiality Is gives place. Paul further says. "th' V fruit of the Spirit is love. joy, peace d long suffering, gentleness, goodness e faith, meekness. temperance:" (Gal tt V.,) and he adds. against such ther, d is no law" Gal V.) A ChrIstiaI