The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-13

ice to mankind. an opportunity TO
bring something OF comfort and
beauty into lives which otherwise
might have little but that which
was drab; that that business was
entitled TO a reasonable financial
return; that that business could
attract to 1t no employee or patron
who could come TO it for other than
an honest purpose. He and his wife
held to this thought courageously
for year.
Last Becomes First
Where do you suppose his store
was ranked by then? Yes, il was In
first place. The last had become
first through the practical applica-
ton OF a Bible text first enunciated
more than nineteen hundred years
before, but just as true and effective
today as when the master Christian
first voiced 1t.
There are literally hundreds OF
such Bible texts which study will
reveal TO be useful at the present
time. The study OF the Christian
Science Lesson Sermons, made up
Of correlated passages from the King
James Version Of the Bible and the
Christian Science textbook. has
placed helpful tools in the hands OF
many. many students who are using
them TO clear up problems OF all
sorts which come up in their every
day experience. And IL has been
said OF Christian Scientists that they
are a Bibleless people!
Value Of Prayer
The Founder Of Christian Science
knew well the value Of prayer. and
devoted a whole chapter Of the
Christian Science textbook, the
opening chapter, to setting forth
her views on the subject. Many are
the healings directly traceable 10
the reading OF this chapter by seek
ers after religious enlightenment;
healings OF so-called incurable dis
eases, as we'll as of those things
which are considered less serious.
These healings came about be-
cause readers OF the chapter ac-
CURED radically different estl-
mate OF prayer and It's Office, as
affecting the attitude OF man toward
God; a restoration of the under
standing OF prayer as used by Jesus
and his disciples, and by the early
prophets They realized that prayer
should be not so much petitionary
as affirmative In its FORM not ask
ing God TO remember TO be omnipo-
tent, omnipresent, omnisc!ent, and
omniactive, but realizing that He
already and at all times is all these.
Not asking Him TO change His plan
in any particular. but seeking 70
bring all straying thoughts Of ,he
one praying into harmony with that
plan.
A relative OF mine was healed OF
cancer and heart disease many
years ago through the enlighten-
ment that came 10 her through car
nest study OF this chapter Told by
five Of the most eminent physicians
OF her home city that she must be
operated upon within two weeks Il II
we're 70 do her any good at all, but
with no promise OF a permanent
cure, she decided not TO have the
operation. She had lived for years
in q terribly depressed mental at
mosphere. grieving for the loved
ones gone on and fearing the same
fate.
Healed and Uplifted
Faced by this apparently hope
less situation, as viewed from the
medical standpoint. she went 70
neighbor. a Christian Scientist. al
time and in q community where
there were few such, and obtained
a copy OF the textbook and other
literature. She began reading with
rapt' interest. She found so much
OF ali Illuminating nature in Mrs
Eddy's teachings on prayer that II
became difficult TO 90 beyond that
chapter. At the end OF ten days
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