Milford chronicle., 1963-05-17

II, 1868
he must have seen that Love
being All, could conceive of moth
ing outside of itself about which
it had to be afraid. Johns dec
laration continues, e" becaus
fear hath torment" and indeed i
does. It provides the fodder 70
the beliefs of sickness, disease
and failure to feed on. Healing
always results when fear is dis
PEELED by the understanding tha
there is no fear in the liberatin,
atmosphere of all-inclusive Love
And this is what occurred in thi
case.
Treatment Is Prayer
You may have noticed that w,
have referred to Christian Sci
ence treatment as pra. er. Som,
of you may be thinking, "I'v,
prayed many lines and hi We felt
for the most part, that my prayers
have gone unanswered. Jus
what kind of prayer constitute.
a Christian Science treatment?
Well, it is prayer of Aft: nation
of acknowledgment. that God i.
All; that He is self-existent Mine
or intelligence. It is not a mere
petition to a corporeal God fol
something material as one might
petition a mortal to do something
for US. True, scientific prayer in
cludeS the positive admission thai
there is but one Mind because
there is one God and that the
universe, including Individual
spiritual man, is His perfect
manifestation. 1t also makes q
clear distinction between the real
man of Gods creating and So
called mortal man, the offspring
of the flesh. We do not pray to
change sick, SHINING, unhappy,
unsuccessful, or aging mortal
man into a healthy. pure. happy,
successful. Or youthful spiritual
man. Such prayer unsWervingly
acknowledges that there is but
one kind of man, spiritual and
perfect. because there is but one
Father-M Mother God who is
Spirit, all-inclusive Mind. The
practitioner realizes that this
Mind forms and preserves the
very individuality of the real man
and governs the entire universe.
including man, in perfect har-
mony. He denies the belief that
there is any other .inJ of man,
any other kind of universe, and
knows that the notion that there
is deficient man or an ailing
world is but a false mental sug-
gestion. myth, utterly imros-
Sible and non-exiStent. He knows
there is no mind apart from God
to know or to accept the sugges-
tion that the spiritual facts re-
garding perfect God and perfect
man can be reversed. These
truths remain forever supreme
and effective in what is called
the physical realm as wei. as in
the spiritual. This prayer, or
Christian Science treatment, is
the unqualified acknowledgment
that God is All and that there is
none else This is why it is effec-
tive. James describes it in these
words (5:l6y. "The effectual fer
vent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much"
Today's world, with its "coId
war" and rumors of an impend-
ing "hot war" its pressures.
strains, fears, and Illustrations,
needs more than ever before the
liberating balm which only al
spiritual understanding of God
and His Christ or divine nature
of man can bring to a troubled
world. Through the study of
Christian Science we gain this
understanding of the Christ and
learn to apply it to meet the hu-
man need.
And now, in closing I'd like to
read from Science and Health
what Mrs. Eddy has to say on this
timely subject (p. 96): "This
material world is ever now be-
coming the arena Tor conflicting
forces. On one side there will be
discord and dismay; on the other
side there will be Science and
peace. The breaking up of mate
rial beliefs may seem to be FAM
inc and pestilence, want and woe,
sin, sickness and death, which
assume new phases until their
1othingness appears These dis
will continue until the
End of error. when all discord
will be swallowed up in spiritual
Truth" "