Editorial June 29, 1940 Issue

Prayer and Self-Discipline

Alfred Pittman

Christians in general have believed in the advantages of prayer and reformation, or self-discipline. A common effect of Christian Science upon its students has been to increase their interest in both. They have learned through this Science to pray with signs unmistakably following, and they see in a new light both the practicability and the value of correcting the human sense of self.

It is plain that Christ Jesus saw no limits to the power of prayer for either himself or others. He urged its immeasurable opportunities upon his followers. Not once, but many times, he counseled them to pray with full expectation of the results that they rightly sought, and he continually admonished them not to ask for too little. "If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it," he said. And at a time when, in the ordinary human view, they had certainly asked for a good deal, he said, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name," as if what they had sought thus far was little indeed in comparison with what they might expect. "Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full," he said.

How indeed could one ask meager blessings of God, who is infinite good, as Jesus understood Him to be! Or in any manner ask otherwise than in accordance with His nature!

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