Article December 12, 1953 Issue

LET US PRAY

HILDA M. JORDAN

"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." So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 39 of "No and Yes." The Christian Scientist learns that he is not contending with a material past, a material future, or a material disease, but with the mortal thought which is opposed to God. Erring thought with its accompanying mental picture is silenced only by prayer, the utilization of God's love for man.

Christ Jesus accomplished his wonderful works of healing sin, disease, and death because he knew how to pray, how to utilize the love of God. Rejecting personal and human frailty, the Master knew true existence to be spiritual. He knew man to be created, governed, and maintained harmoniously by his ever-loving Father, God. Jesus always reasoned spiritually. As Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." Each one must pray to silence the senses as our Way-shower did. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," is the promise of the Master (John 14:12).

A new student of Christian Science had on her wrist a growth, which she and her family feared. A physician stated that it could be removed, but that it would return and spread. The student wanted a change in matter, but she had to learn that the only change was to claim that Mind as hers "which was also in Christ Jesus."

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