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   1      "The prayer of faith shall save the sick," says the
     Scripture. What is this healing prayer? A mere re-
   3  quest that God will heal the sick has no

    Prayer for
    the sick

     power to gain more of the divine presence
     than is always at hand. The beneficial effect of
   6  such prayer for the sick is on the human mind, mak-
     ing it act more powerfully on the body through a blind
     faith in God. This, however, is one belief casting out
   9  another,--a belief in the unknown casting out a belief
     in sickness. It is neither Science nor Truth which
     acts through blind belief, nor is it the human under-
  12  standing of the divine healing Principle as manifested
     in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and con-
     scientious protests of Truth,--of man's likeness to
  15  God and of man's unity with Truth and Love.
         Prayer to a corporeal God affects the sick like a
     drug, which has no efficacy of its own but borrows its
  18  power from human faith and belief. The drug does
     nothing, because it has no intelligence. It is a mortal
     belief, not divine Principle or Love, which causes a
  21  drug to be apparently either poisonous or sanative.
         The common custom of praying for the recovery of the
     sick finds help in blind belief, whereas help should come
  24  from the enlightened understanding. Changes in belief
     may go on indefinitely, but they are the merchandise of
     human thought and not the outgrowth of divine Science.
  27      Does Deity interpose in behalf of one worshipper,
     and not help another who offers the same measure of
     prayer? If the sick recover because they

    Love impartial
    and universal

  30  pray or are prayed for audibly, only peti-
     tioners (per se or by proxy) should get well. In divine
     Science, where prayers are mental, all may avail them-

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