Article January 12, 1946 Issue

"Teach us to pray"

NANNETTE MURRAY

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "No and Yes" (p. 39): "True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us." "God is love" (I John 4:8). How broad and limitless is the Love in which we live and move! Through prayer we learn to love and to express divine Love in goodness, wholeness, beauty, purity, wisdom, and other Godlike qualities.

There are many Bible stories in both the Old and the New Testament which illustrate Love's protective presence. Daniel, in the den of lions, was untouched. He prayed with the understanding that God is all-powerful. He most certainly must have known the presence of Love and expected deliverance as the result of his prayer.

The three Hebrew captives who were placed in the fiery furnace were likewise unharmed. It is clear that they knew God to be all-presence. Their prayer was so powerful and righteous that even Nebuchadnezzar recognized the presence of the Son of God, walking with them in the furnace (Dan. 3:25). In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 571) Mrs. Eddy writes, "Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you." Many persons who have found themselves in terrifying positions on the land, on the sea, or in the air, in the jungle of human treachery or in the fiery furnace of human hate, have been protected by remembering a passage of Scripture or words from the writings of our beloved Leader.

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