PRAYER in Christian Science and what is known to its followers as treatment are identical. Ordinarily, the prayer of Christians admits the human needs and requests God to supply them, if it is His will to do so. But the prayer of Christian Science is one of realization, an acknowledgment of the omnipresence of God, divine Love, and of the perfection of spiritual man, and a rejection of human limitation as unreal. It is a scientific understanding of the goodness and power of God to help and heal mankind.
A prayer the Christian Science mother teaches her child is the verse written by Mary Baker Eddy— "Mother's New Year Gift to the Little Children" (Poems, p. 69):
"Father-Mother God,
Loving me,—
Guard me when I sleep;
Guide my little feet
Up to Thee."
