Editorial September 15, 1973 Issue

Prayer for All Mankind

Naomi Price

It is natural for those who are awake to the healing power of God revealed in Christian Science to want the whole world to be blessed by it. Their heartfelt longing is expressed in the "Daily Prayer" given by Mrs. Eddy in the Manual of The Mother Church. One sentence of this prayer is, "And may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them!"^{Man., Art. VIII, Sect. 4;}

"All mankind" is a great number of people—somewhere in the region of four thousand million on this planet at this time. Each one of these people is an individual who has unique life experience, his own thoughts and way of expressing them, his own joys and satisfactions, his own needs. Our daily prayer for them all, expressed in general terms, that the Word of God, divine Love, may enrich and govern their affections and lives will do much to ensure that the benefits of the inheritance of the sons of God to which they are entitled will develop in their experience. But, more than that, although we would not pray for individuals unless they request this spiritual help, except in an emergency, we can usefully entertain in thought truths that will help groups of people who are victims of particular forms of discord.

Mrs. Eddy once wrote, "Three times a day, I retire to seek the divine blessing on the sick and sorrowing, with my face toward the Jerusalem of Love and Truth, in silent prayer to the Father which 'seeth in secret,' and with childlike confidence that He will reward 'openly.'"^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 133;}

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