The Christian Science Journal, 1906, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Christian Science Journal, 1906<br/><br/>Prayer in Christian Science is not offered to propitiate an angry Deity, to implore His mercy, nor to ask that ignorance and sin be overlooked, but it is the mental efiort to perceive and understand the unchanging Truth of being and to rely upon it. It is a protest against evil, a strenuous objection to the charge that God ever makes His children sick or sinful, the realization that outside of the falsities of human error, God reigns supreme, filling all space and including all reality. It is a mental process and very simple; the only thing that seems to render it difficult is one's belief in matter and evil, and as this is overcome the student sees more clearly that man does indeed live and move in God and nowhere else. The Christian Scientist goes to God in prayer as one goes to a spread table where he may partake of all he needs. It is man's place to gather the fruit of the tree of Life which God has provided for him. The practice of pleading with God to give of this fruit is as nu reasonable as for a hungry man to sit at a bountifully spread table and beg for food. What we need is to open our men tal eyes, to see as did the young man with Elisha that we are encircled by God's protecting power, that we are safe with Him at all times, and that no good thing is ever with holden from us.

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