Arizona republican., 1921-03-30

devotes his time and energies wholly to the effort of attaining the Mind of Christ and to understanding the divine Mind, God, and His spiritual | ation, rather than to the study of fleeting material conditions which have no true science, no stability, no actual law and no divine reality? It must be admitted that it is the lack of this very spiritual thinking which has caused mankind to wander so far 1 from the understanding of divine law | and divine realities. and to wallow in the mire of material intellectuaiism | in which there is and can be no real l Science, no divine theology, and no true healing. It must also be admitted
 that it is through this constant study of spiritual facts. or through divine
 communion, that mankind will be led out of the by-ways of materialisn and will be awakened to the great spiritual
 and scientific fact of one infinite.
 ever present God, divine Mind. and
 one infinite. indestructible creation
 absolute spiritual being, never be- ginning. never ending but perfect and
 eternal as the Father Himself. It is
 also in this study that the truly wise
 man will find his solace and comfort,
 that the truly intellectual man will
 find his joy, and that the true re-
 
 ability to help and to heal his fellow men.
 | The Prayer of Christian Science
 How, then, is the Science of Christ, or Christian Science, which includes
 in itself all true Science. theology. and medicine going to reveal to men the ltruth of being which Science should reveal. the saving and redeeming
 theology which alone can deliver hu- fT1s4 4r1Tr fFRf -fr, i.
 grace which alone heals One of the
 greatest aids to the understanding
 and demonstration of this Science of
 being, is prayer. What wealth Of
 deep and consecrated thought that
 word prayer stirs in us all. As long
 as the word prayer exists, human
 hope can never be entirely lost. Then
 is the Christian Scientist who depends
 so largely on prayer. not in accord ! with humanitys purest and highest desires? It is true that prayer has been so misunderstood and misused that much of it's effulgence and true 5 meaning has been lost hut even yet . no word means more to poor sick and ] suffering humanity than does this word prayer. What then is the prayer of a Christian Scientist? 1t is not a , spasmodic attempt to perform the inn possible, that is to change or to in- fluence the immutable, divine Mind l God, who is always Love. It is not an attempt to obtain from Deity ] som ething that we do not deserve in l order that we may continue on our material course. Neither is it an at y tempt to deliver ourselves from sick ness, from poverty, from worry, nor ] from any vicisSitude of human ex-
 perience simply in order that we may e be free from pain and trouble.
 T The prayer of a Christian Scientist is his constant, conscious. unremitting
 mental desire to live above the mor- s | tai and in accord with the divine. IL { is his unceasing attempt to commune s with the divine Mind. God, and so to f utilize the true Science which reveals f true existence, the true theology 8 which inevitably delivers from sin | and the true healing power which al
 ways heals disease. The Christian e Scientists prayer is his persistent n daily and hourly affirmation of divine e Minds infinite presence and power t and of evils nothingness. It is his d increasing knowledge of God and oi Q absolute spiritual being. and before f this the so- called carnai mind and its e falsities of sense. material existence S. sin disease, and death grow fainter s and finally disappear. This is tho S prayer of which Paul speaks as pray ;. ing without ceasing. True prayer i: s one of the tenderest most certain {, most scientific and most intelligen |; things on earth or in heaven. Int a Christian Scientists prayer is in fact IS his spiritual thinking and living. ol t. his right mental activity. When ; ,s man thinks rightly he is expressing ,f his true being as the likeness of God = divine Mind. Spiritual thinking is q therefore really Immanuel, or Go, Is with us. Just as soon as man recog )r nizeS that his constant right thinking '- and right living, or his right menta t. activity. that is his true consciousness IS is indeed Immanuel, or divine Mind
 God. with us, he at that moment be st gins to understand why true prayer i
 infallble and is infinite in it's abilit, .- to reveal divlne facts which save ant is heal. Thinking divinelS, or having tn ss Mind of Christ. is attaining somewha le to man ill Gods image the true an