In
his parable of the Pharisee and the publican, related in the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus makes it clear that the prayer of the humble heart is answered because it realizes the limitations of the human mind and so reaches out to a higher power for comfort and release from sin and discord.
Oh,
may my words, like gentle rainThat lifts the drooping flower again,Arouse the fainting heart to learnIn confidence to God to turn,Knowing His bounty ever fallsOn him who asks or knocks or calls,And to a hungry wanderer's cryWill never bread of Truth deny.
Every
Christian Scientist seeks to forward the full revelation of the spiritual senses, for through them men become conscious of heaven's presence, of the realm of Spirit, whose glories are now but dimly seen.
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Although I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing, it was not long after I became a student that a testing time came, a test as to whether I would call on materia medica as I had always done previously or work my problem out in Science.
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