"Come ye yourselves apart," said the Master to his disciples. In quietude, usually under the open sky, he prayed and taught them to pray. Mary Baker Eddy has written (No and Yes, p. 39): "True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us. Prayer begets an awakened desire to be and do good. It makes new and scientific discoveries of God, of His goodness and power." In our day, the establishment of Christian Science Reading Rooms is a result of such prayer. They are proving to countless thousands "none other but the house of God" and "the gate of heaven."
Four members of a branch church had the custom of going through the Christian Science Hymnal in their home, reading a hymn each day. On the morning that this church's Reading Room opened in a new, more convenient location, they read Hymn No. 125—an adaptation of the eighty-fourth Psalm, beginning:
How lovely are Thy dwellings, Lord,
From noise and trouble free;
How beautiful the sweet accord
Of those who pray to Thee.
