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SHOULD I PRAY FOR THE WORLD?

From the August 1965 issue of The Christian Science Journal


THE question used as the title of this article can be answered only in the affirmative by the unselfed, conscientious individual, who has a deep love for his fellowmen. Our precious Leader, Mrs. Eddy, when still a child, prayed seven times daily, marking each time on the woodshed door lest she omit one single period of prayer.

One prays for the world just as one prays for himself or another in case of sickness. There is little difference between a sick body and a sick world. Each is healed in the same manner through earnest spiritual prayer—faith in and the acknowledgment of God's allness right here and now.

Recorded for us in the Bible and in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy is the complete, final Science of Life—Christian Science. Our job is to study and understand it. Living this Science of Life in a world involved in a deep sense of inner conflicts and inequalities is highest prayer. The spiritual approach to living will be found to be the only answer to conflicts, whatever their nature, within the nations of the world today.

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