Article June 30, 1928 Issue

Prayer and Activity

MARIE C. E. RABUS

Every earnest student of Christian Science accepts with joyous gratitude its teachings regarding prayer; for through the light these have thrown on so vital a subject, the erroneous concepts which we held about it are corrected.

For ages humanity has consciously or unconsciously been reaching out for the understanding of a power above and beyond itself, on which it could rely. The Supreme Being, God, has been believed in by many; yet how mistaken has been the universal concept of God, who, century after century, has been regarded as a mighty potentate, judging and condemning, sending good and evil, expressing sometimes love, sometimes wrath. Our method of prayer has therefore been largely a petitioning of this almighty potentate to change His design, to save and to heal at our request, or to grant our desires for temporal well-being. Again and again prayer has appeared to have been unanswered; so that discouragement, even despair, has held the suppliant. Yet in spite of this, men have continued to pray, to plead, to hope for better conditions.

Christian Science, the promised Comforter, has come to guide "into all truth." It has come to reestablish the pure, primitive Christianity taught and practiced by our Lord and Master, Christ Jesus. It teaches us to know, to understand, God as Love, as our Father-Mother, whose will toward His children is unvarying good, since He is the infinite source of all good, ever caring for, guarding, guiding, blessing His creation, including man, without favoritism or partiality or respect of persons. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 13) Mrs. Eddy says: "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.'"

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