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Following the example set by the question-and-answer columns in the early Journals, when Mary Baker Eddy was Editor, this column will respond to general queries from Journal readers with responses from Journal readers.

Is there a difference between silent prayer and declaring truth aloud?

By Serene Mullan, John Rinnert

From the March 2011 issue of The Christian Science Journal

Is there a difference between silent prayer and declaring truth aloud? —From a Christian Science Practitioner workshop A1.  When you are praying silently, you are actually having a private conversation with God, as His child.