Article August 6, 1949 Issue

DO WE USE THE LORD'S PRAYER?

MABEL OSBORNE STEWART

A Small boy jumped from a high step and fell to the sidewalk. He was hurriedly carried to the home of a student of Christian Science, who took him in her arms and audibly denied the sense of fear. This was followed by strong affirmations of the truth, as taught in Christian Science, that man, made in the image and likeness of God, is the forever expression of perfect harmony and can in no wise be separated for a moment from God's active law of Love.

When the suffering subsided, the friend said, "Would you like me to play the phonograph for you?" The child requested the Lord's Prayer. This was played for him, and he sat reverently listening while the beautiful words came forth: "Our Father which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." The child was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School and had been taught that God talks to His children when they turn their thought and attention to Him. As he listened, it was evident that healing was taking place in the child's thinking. The active spiritual facts of his true being, his own relationship to God, his Father, were dawning upon his consciousness, and this awakened sense of his ever-present at-one-ment with divine Love was separating him from the suggestions of pain— from the belief and feeling of being torn away from his source of all-harmonious good.

As the last line of the prayer was spoken, "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever," the boy smiled. He knew he was free. The healing had come.

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