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ROSTER of CMRC8ES
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
3#1 South Boo*
Bo*. H. H. MtBrUt
ASSEMBLY of GOD
North. BmkMrkti*
Rev. ft. E. MuooH
CHURCH OF CHRIST
43 W. Walker
A. F. Walter, Minotter '
FIRST CHRISTIAN,
Ittt E. William*
Km. H. J. Sheets
EPISCOPAL (St. Andrew*)
Ewlatt ft Elm Streets
The Re*. Richard Allen U K
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Mr Ami* ft Williaata Street*
Re*. W. E. Ptapp
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
4t W. Walker
Rev. W. L. Hank la. Paster
ST. PAUL METHODIST
E. Elm Street
R v. Wm. E. >SB*>RN
CHURCH OF GOD
Re*. Ku.sH.-il E. Butler
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
Re«. JeroW R. MeBtrMT -
7TH DAY ADYENTI8T
V. J. Matoney, Pastor
North Parks
TEMPLE BETH'-ISRAEL
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ROSE AVENUE BAPTIST
70S N. Ron* Ave***
Rev. R. E. Wrifhl
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
i Hl RiH of the NAZARENE
CATHOLIC (Sarred Heart)
lather Baldwin, Pastor
PENTECOSTAL
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Rev. E. W. • opetamt
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THIS SUNDAY!
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CMHSTUN SCIENCE CWKfl
WHY DO YOU PRAY?
You may have various answers
to this question, but actually, isn't
it because you. believe, deep down
in your heart, in the existence at'
good—of spiritual good. not so-
called material good? And that
you can experience good ? Even if
you have been taught to believe in
a__ good hereafter and bad present
—which you must somehow endure
—you still have faith that you can
experience good. So faith in the
existence and availability of good
underlies almost everyone's prayer.
' Without the divine elements of
right desire and faith in good,
prayer is ridden with the negative,
destructive elements of fear, doubt,
disbelief and wickedness and there-
fore contains little, if any. of the
saving; and redeeming forces of
spiritual truth.
Effective prayer, then is meas-
ured by its divine, or spiritual, con-
k tent. The more material it is—that
f is, t& more fear, ^selfishness,
wrong desire and purpose it con-
tains—the less effective it is. The
more spiritual it is—the more pur
ity, humility, honesty, faith in
good, love and unselfed desire and
purpose it contains--the more ef-
fective it is. The wise person re-
cognises this and accepts the ines-
capable challenge to learn and
practice true prayer.
This view of prayer applied to
the various states and stages of
human consciousness clearly shows
that the main object of true prayer
should be for the individual to gain
a correct understanding of God. In
the religion of Christian Science
we for increased spiritual
light, for divine inspiration, hum-
ility, purity and holiness; we seek
to become more fully aware of the
great spiritual truths taught in the
Holy Scriptures, which character-
ize God and man in His image as
perfect, whole, free, and good. The
basis of true prayer is perfect God
and perfect man, as taught in the
fiist chapter of Genesis. The pur-
puse of true prayer is to lift indi-
vidual human consciousness above
fear, doubt, ignorance of God, and
wickedness, into the awareness and
practice of the things of God, in-
finite divine Spirit. The object of
true prater is to be-iCodfcke.
Since t^od. Spirit,.™ tSe direct
opposite of matter, true prayer
n< ver seeks the things of matter;
it alawys has for its object the
possessing of "the things of the
Spirit," as the Apostle Paul so
graphically put it, when he pro-
proclaimad, "They that are after
the flesh do mind the things of the
flesh, but they that are after the
Spirit the things of the Spirit"
(Romans 8:5). Anyone will admit
that true prayer seeks true sub-
stance. In the light of the divine
logic that Deity is Spirit, and not
matter, the real object of prayer is
to enable one to experience "the
things of Spirit."
Christian Science teaches that
God's work has always been for-
ever perfect and complete, includ-
ing man in His likeness. This fun-
damental bases true prayer and
enables one to pi-ay the prayer of
affirmation, as well as petition—
to first acknowledge what God is
and already has done, and then to
set about through this spiritually-
enlightened understanding of di-
vine reality to bring his conscious-
ness and experience into confor-
mity with reality. It should not be
thought sacrelegious here to use
a simple illustration in mathema-
tics. In a certain sense, true, prayer
can be likened fanatical
processes. The perwctTsfenrnfipte and
rule of mathematics underlies all
mathematical calculations. The
mathematician seeks to understand
and prove mathematics; he does
not expect mathematics to take
cognizance of his ignorance of its
rules and in some way forgive and
leave him in this ignorance. He
learns the principle and rule involv-
ed and then demonstrates his
knowledge. So it is in true prayer.
In "Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy, this thought-provoking state-
ment is made (p. :>:4); "Who
would stand before a blackboard,
and pray the principle of mathe-
matics to solve the problem? The
rule is already established, and it
is our task" to work out the solu-
tion. Shall we ask the divine Prin-
ciple of all goodness to do His own
work? His work is done, and we
have only to avail ourselves of
God's rule in order to receive His
bli ssing, which enables us |to work
out our own salvation."" *
True prayer, then, means ear-
nest, sincere desire and effort to
bring our thoughts, aims and acts
irit<% relation—finally into confor-
* mitj—with the divine nature and
will". This kind of prayer not only
causes the sinner to repent and re-
form; it heals the sick and de-
stroys discord of every kind. This
. kind of prayer enables one to live
his prayer.
( Inman H. Douglass, Christian
Science Committe on Publication
for Texas).
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