With
attention being given to an urgent desire for designated periods of prayer, not only for ourselves and our country, but for all peoples, we may well ask ourselves, How shall I pray "the effectual fervent prayer" of which James wrote, and which he declared "availeth much"?
The
question was recently put to the writer whether it would not be more consistent with the teachings of Christian Science to direct our whole effort toward healing the nations by spiritual means alone rather than to take part in helping the democracies to carry on material warfare.
Today
when the world is crying out for deliverance from the evil forces which seem to assail it, the student of Christian Science holds to the truth of the reassuring statement by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
The
extent to which the physical and spiritual needs of mortals are distinguishable the one from the other, and the degree of priority that should be conceded to either, has always been a matter of some perplexity, especially to those who believe that their aspirations are alone concerned with ministering to spiritual needs.
Christian Science
has given to the world, through its spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures, the blessed assurance that all the children of God are equally blessed.
At
this crucial point in the world's history a vital part of the work of the Christian Scientist is to help erase from the human mind unhappy and diseased thoughts.
