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Rev. Dr. Donna Byrns, Senior Minister
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THE TRUTH REGARDING PRAYERBy Rev. H. Edward Mills To those who live absolutely by the Truth, prayer is the master key to all achievement. Primitive men pray. Highly developed men pray. Only the half-way man neglects or refuses to pray. See the striking return of developed man to the unerring instincts of primitive man. Primitive man thinks that each event or object in nature is under the control of some divinity. Summer, winter, ocean, mountain, seed-time, harvest, war, peace, birth, death, each has its god or goddess. Man partly developed believes in one great God who controls all things, but under vice-regents known as laws of nature. This man thinks that God may occasionally usurp the power He has delegated to His laws, reversing them and producing so-called "miracles." But man highly developed sees that one of two things must be true: Either God is in nothing at all or else He is in everything. Whoever takes the first alternative finds his life a terrible battle with the odds often against him and ultimate defeat a certainty. He who believes the second premise-that God is in everything-has the basis for life of complete triumph. This man prays. His prayer resembles that of the savage in this respect, it deals with every event and every object. But his prayer differs in that it is scientific. The god of primitive man is capricious, notional, vindictive or indulgent. The God of developed man is absolute in two paradoxical qualities- justice and love. Prayer to primitive man is seeking a favor; to developed man it is directing a force. Primitive man is afraid of his god; developed man companions with his. Humanity as we see it today presents a strange jumble of primitive instinct and developed understanding regarding prayer. But we clearly see the trend of human thought, and we realize that when man has come to himself, he will depend upon prayer just as fully as he now depends upon food. It is glorious to become convinced that your prayer has power. To discover that the Infinite is available in your time of need is like deliverance in time of siege. To discover that you can, through prayer, heal disease, break habits, destroy insanity and restore normal man is a joy unspeakable. Many are making this discovery today. To them the universe is all new - life is new - they themselves are new. They are like travelers who ascend a mountain. Every step gives them a new world. What is this Truth Prayer which is blessing so many eager souls? It is conscious desire plus conscious realization. That is the prayer of power. It may formulate in petition or in affirmation; or it may be far above speech of any sort. It is a great laying hold upon the Infinite, and it removes mountains as Jesus said it should do. The Truth regarding prayer is that prayer is just as great as is the one who prays. It is in reality not an act, but an attitude. It is bounded in its possible results by nothing less than God's universe; and it cannot fail any more than God can fail. The fact that you or I may not achieve what we pray for is nothing against the Truth of prayer. That only impeaches ourselves. That merely proves to us that we must grow in consciousness. The encouraging thing is not that we ourselves have as yet proved the full potency of prayer, but that here and there are men and women in our day who approach Him in their praying. Rev. H. Edward Mills, 1936
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