Article December 14, 1940 Issue

Scientific Prayer

MARGARET WILLIAMS

That prayer is the medium through which abundant good may be brought into one's experience is demonstrated in the lives of loyal students of Christian Science. Down through the ages much has been said and written as to what constitutes true prayer. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, through divine inspiration has given the world the incomparable chapter "Prayer" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

When our Saviour was asked by his disciples to teach them how to pray, he gave them what we now call the Lord's Prayer. In "No and Yes" (p. 39) Mrs. Eddy has supplied this most enlightening definition of prayer: "Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us. Prayer begets an awakened desire to be and do good. It makes new and scientific discoveries of God, of His goodness and power. It shows us more clearly than we saw before, what we already have and are; and most of all, it shows us what God is."

Nothing can be of more vital importance to those in need of comfort than an understanding of what constitutes scientific prayer; and radiant spiritual unfoldment and exaltation take place in the thought which reaches out for the riches of God's grace through prayerful methods. Every Christian Science treatment is a prayer, affirming the truth about God and man. True prayer might well be defined as an abiding sense of God's nearness, His all-embracing love.

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