Editorial November 23, 1940 Issue

Prayer for Victory and Peace

ALFRED PITTMAN

THE only genuine peace, Christian Science shows, is inseparable from victory—victory for righteousness. This is the peace which expresses God, divine Principle, and it is the peace for which all men yearn. It is just, stable, and immeasurably beneficent to all; and Christian Science reveals that it is available for every individual and nation.

It is attained primarily through prayer, a definite and practical way of thinking, which is made plain in Science. This prayer is communion with God, infinite Spirit, Life, Truth, Love. It is recognition of His allness, and of man's oneness with Him as His manifestation, in accordance with Scriptural teaching. As we read in Isaiah: "I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else."

True prayer, it may be seen, is not a mere human activity. In recognizing the divine nature, it partakes of that nature. It acknowledges God as the only Mind, and thus shows it to be man's privilege and necessity to know as God knows—to experience and express the divine consciousness. Such consciousness discloses the nothingness of whatever is unlike God, and thereby heals.

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