I recently had an experience which made perfectly clear to...

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I recently had an experience which made perfectly clear to me the efficacy of prayer, regardless of the circumstances that might argue mightily against trust in God and the essential goodness of man as His spiritual child.

There is much talk about dishonesty, crime, injustice, irreversible losses, and so forth. In addition, the economy of my country is in great turmoil, and money itself seems very hard to come by, let alone the ability to pay one's obligations. Thus, after I sent my office assistant to the bank with some deposits from my business, as well as an endorsed check for my property-tax payment that could have been cashed if found, and then learned that the endorsed check and the tax document had been lost, I realized I had to stay calm and trust God's direction. This is what Christian Science has brought me—an understanding that because God is omnipresent and omniscient, everything is known to Him.

As I prayed for direction, I thought of the Bible statement that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." At that moment I felt deeply inspired to pray to know that everyone passing through the area who might have found the check was in reality God's child; each one expressed spiritual honesty and purity and therefore would never take something that didn't belong to him or her. I truly felt a spiritual love for the spiritual nature of my fellowman. I realized, too, that the person I sent to make this transaction had been doing her best to help and that as a result I could trust that the goodness behind her actions had its source in God and could not make her a victim of loss or accident. In Christian Science I have learned that error—all that is contrary to good, to the will of God—does not have true power, regardless of appearances to the contrary.

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