Editorial January 13, 1951 Issue

PRAYER FOR THE NATIONS

Richard J. Davis

Realizing the gravity of conditions confronting the civilized world today, one of our representatives at the United Nations Council called upon the people of the United States to stop all material activity one day for several minutes, and pray. This is an encouraging sign. It is the visible evidence and indication of right-minded men and women of all faiths turning away from the material sense of things to Spirit, God, as the only answer to humanity's unsolved and pressing problems.

As, a matter of fact, there is no material answer, no merely human solution. If mankind is to continue and be permitted to work out the good life in spiritual progress and thus maintain freedom—freedom from poverty, freedom from disease, freedom from fear—and to live a life of peace. Christian Science declares that these essentials can and will be found only in a correct, scientific knowledge of God and of man's coexistent and inseparable relationship to Him. Almost every day one hears of some well-known and highly regarded public citizen emphasizing spiritual values and urging upon the people the paramount need of prayer.

On page 95 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours." And she continues, "Humanity advances slowly out of sinning sense into spiritual understanding; unwillingness to learn all things rightly, binds Christendom with chains." Mrs. Eddy points out that it is mankind's unwillingness to live and think rightly that lays the basis of slavery. This also is responsible for the apathy and lack of alertness to the evil elements of the so-called carnal mind which, if not uncovered and destroyed, would again engulf mankind in mental darkness.

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