Article September 13, 1975 Issue

The Power of Prayer

GERALD A. NEWMAN

As we seek ways and means of overcoming inflation, unemployment, international dislocation in economic and political balances, it would be well to consider the power of prayer.

In the Gospel of John, Christ Jesus tells us, "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33; His words ring with the authority of proven fact. In the brief record of the Gospels, we are told of Jesus' reliance on the power of divine Spirit to heal immediately every ill among the throngs that crowded around him for help. We see him providing food for thousands with no more at hand than a few loaves and fishes. We marvel with his disciples at his walking on the water and stilling the storm. And we are still probing the full significance of his rising from the tomb.

In Jesus' presence the problems of health, food, transport, weather control, and life itself were resolved by his absolute reliance on his at-one-ment with God, divine Spirit. He assures us these things were done for the specific purpose of opening human understanding to the immense resources of good that come with the consciousness that God is our Father and loves us, and in our acceptance of our spiritual unity with God.

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