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Prayer is the most ancient known form of religious observance; traces of it are to be found in every ancient or modern system of religion. The general purpose of prayer has often been either to appease an unknown malevolent power or to curry favor with an equally unknown, or but partially known, beneficent power; although among Christians, and monotheists generally, popular belief combines these opposing forces in one person, commonly called God.

According to Webster a witness is an individual who is able to furnish evidence of or proof of anything; one who can bear testimony. A study of the Scriptures reveals the fact that throughout the Old and New Testaments the role of witness is of a twofold nature.

On page 234 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says: "In love for man, we gain a true sense of Love as God; and in no other way can we reach this spiritual sense, and rise—and still rise—to things most essential and divine.

The prophecy of Habakkuk, "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea," and the Revelator's words in regard to the great dragon, "And they overcame him .

There was once a time when the enemies of David sought his life. The love which King Saul had always borne for the shepherd lad whose harp strings had charmed away his melancholy turned suddenly into hatred on that unfortunate day when the women singers were heard chanting that "Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

The Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," with Mrs. Eddy's other writings and what is in strict accord therewith, provide us with all we know of the Science of overcoming.

On page 301 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Few persons comprehend what Christian Science means by the word reflection.

In Christian Science Sunday Schools we are working out problems in education ahead of the world. We are learning that we can work out these problems only as we look away from personal ability or disability, and know instead that divine Love superintends; that God, divine Mind, is the one and only teacher; and that children, as stated in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

Tenaciously throughout all ages, so far as we have record, humanity has clung to hope in life beyond the pale of mortal existence. Countless millions have professed a belief in life beyond the grave; but their ideas of what that life would be have been as antipodal as the poles, as divergent as their pursuits of happiness.

The door of demonstration is never bolted or barred. Earnest, active, awakened desire, alert self-abnegation, and spiritual understanding combine to bring into manifestation in human experience the power which is always sufficient to open the door and make the way of demonstration plain and clear.