Article December 19, 1914 Issue

Having read with interest the different views expressed in...

M. L. Cushman

Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution

Having read with interest the different views expressed in your paper by some of Atlanta's good ministers on the "power of prayer" in the present hope for peace, I am led to contribute some remarks on the efficacy of prayer from the Christian Scientist's point of view.

While some modern thinkers are seeking salvation through telepathy, psychology, and other human systems, Christian Science as taught in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy bids us turn humbly to the teachings of Jesus the Christ as the way. "I am the way, the truth, and the life," Jesus is recorded as saying in the gospels. This way, Christian Science teaches, is the example he gave us in his daily life, or in other words, his practical proofs of the power of prayer. No human problem was ever too large or too serious to cause our divine Exemplar to doubt the omnipotence of God.

As the apostle so beautifully expresses it, Christ, God's idea, is "the same yesterday, and today, and forever." So we today are learning there has been "no variableness, neither shadow of turning," with infinite good; and that the divine Principle of goodness as Jesus taught, is established for man to prove that human strifes are evil, therefore unlike God.

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