Editorial March 30, 1974 Issue

How God Controls Our Weather

Naomi Price

Can we ask God to send rain to nourish a nation's wheat fields and our own potato patch, but request Him kindly to hold it up until after the school play on Thursday evening or the Christian Science lecture on Saturday morning? Can we pray for divine intervention to reduce atmospheric turbulence at thirty thousand feet above the earth so that our intercontinental flight may be smoother and more comfortable?

Anyone who makes such specific, human-event-oriented requests when he prays presumably believes that God, divine Spirit, is aware of and participates in the affairs of mortal man and the material world. He ignores the fact explained by Christian Science that the material, temporary time universe and the true, spiritual, eternal universe are infinitely apart. They do not unite at any point. Mrs. Eddy emphasizes this in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "The real Life, or Mind, and its opposite, the so-called material life and mind, are figured by two geometrical symbols, a circle or sphere and a straight line. The circle represents the infinite without beginning or end; the straight line represents the finite, which has both beginning and end." And she continues farther on, "Eternal Mind and temporary material existence never unite in figure or in fact." Science and Health, p. 282;

Yet prayer offered by human beings to God, divine Spirit, is distinctly beneficial to their world. The response we get when we pray is often so specific in material terms that we might reasonably think that God is interested in the mortal realm and knows precisely what is wrong in it in order to put it right. But this is not so.

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