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Prayer That Makes a Difference
Prayer of the right sort is never in vain. It always helps the one who prays as well as the object of the prayer—if this is being offered for another. True prayer uplifts and purifies human thought and brings it into harmony with divine law. Then, since our earth-life is the objectification of thought, this prayer results in uplifting, purifying, and making more harmonious our daily affairs. It cannot fail to have a healing effect on them. It always must make a difference for the better in human experience.
True prayer is based on an understanding of the goodness of God, Spirit, the one creator and supreme governor of the universe and man. It is supported by faith in the all-power of Love, and its motive is selfless. The one who prays should not be aiming to get some material benefit for himself or for another. Rather should he have the sincere desire to see God's will established on earth in goodness and harmony as it is being done in heaven.

February 21, 1976 issue
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The Everywhere of God's Presence
JACK EDWARD FOSS
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Christian Science and Occultism
EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT
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How to Impersonalize Evil
GLORIA NOVAK CHRISTENA
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God's Unerring Guidance
ROBERT JOHN ROBERTS
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Discovering Ourselves
FRANCES M. GIBSON
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"The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof"
MABEL I. JOHNSON HUGHES
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PSALM
Moverly Alderson Smith
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Skating and Scoring
Udai Brenes Hoffberg
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Prayer That Makes a Difference
Naomi Price
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The Measureless Attraction of Spirit
Peter J. Henniker-Heaton
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To me Christian Science is the "pearl of great price" (Matt. 13:46),...
Waltraut Wichert-Winter
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Very humbly I express gratitude to God for the revelation of...
Abraham I. Kaplan
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I would like to tell of a healing I had just recently
Lauri Markwith with contributions from Frank R. Markwith, III