Editorial November 14, 1970 Issue

Constructive Prayer for Today

Carl J. Welz

In his parable of the tares and the wheat, Christ Jesus gave us a guideline for warfare against evil. Not unlike his "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,"^{Matt. 6:34;} which we find in his Sermon on the Mount, is this advice in the parable: "Let both [tares and wheat] grow together until the harvest."^13:30;

Human life includes much that is not of God. But there is good present in that life, and the Science Jesus taught shows us the efficient way to claim and to demonstrate that good. As evil shows itself to be evil we can isolate it from the good it falsely seems to be part of and eliminate it.

At this stage of our growth, the human body is the major portion of what most of us see as our identity. Because the evil and the good seem so interwoven in what we think we are, prayer that denies the body or any of its normal functions on the ground that they are not of God could be injurious to those functions. But prayer that denies a pain or a malfunction attacks an evil that can easily be seen as no part of our identity; so it does not interfere with concepts of ourselves which we consider vital even though they appear to include some elements which are not of God.

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