Editorial October 10, 1903 Issue

Answers to Prayer

K.

We often hear it said that Christian people, and even those who make no profession of religion, have remarkable answers to prayer, and students of Christian Science are sometimes asked to explain such occurrences in the light of their understanding of Truth. As such experiences are related, one is impressed by a fact common to most of them; viz., that these unquestioned answers to prayer usually came when the divine aid was invoked in a time of dire extremity; not that the petitioners were otherwise prayerless, but that education and the weight of opinion alike, were on the side of material means either in case of illness or in great trials.

To the student of human nature it is surely worthy of the deepest consideration, that when all else fails, when the door of hope is closed, so far as materiality is concerned, there is something in man which springs up from the very ashes of despair, and cries out for God.

Jesus said of the Father, "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." So no prayer is unanswered and the gift of divine Love is never withheld. The pity is that men call so seldom, and so late.

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