Article July 2, 1910 Issue

HOW TO PRAY

EMMELINE HASKELL

As it sometimes happens that members of other churches comment upon the Christian Scientists' form of using the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation, as given by our Leader in Science and Health (p. 16), it may prove helpful to any who are querying about this subject to read Mark xi. 24, where Jesus instructs his disciples as to the state of mind they should have during prayer. He says, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them;" or, as the Revised Version of 1885 has it: "believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them."

If any one will literally follow this admonition, take each petition of the Lord's Prayer, and try to express in his own words the belief that he has received that for which he has been praying, he will find something quite similar to the "spiritual interpretation" given in our text-book. With each petition he will find that our Leader has voiced for us, more discerningly than we could have done, the state of mind in which Jesus bids us pray; and he will thank God for "the Spirit of truth," which is taking of the things of God and showing them unto men.

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