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492 Truth, and vice versa. The Father in secret is unseen to the senses; but He knows all tilings, and rewards according to motives, not according to speech.

The “prayer of the righteous” heals the sick. The relinquishment of sin deprives sense of its false claims. Our Master taught his disciples one brief prayer, which we name after him, the Lord's Prayer. It is the prayer of Soul, not sense. To enter into the spirit of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be closed. Lips must be mute and matter silent, that man may have audience with Spirit, the Divine Principle that destroys sickness, sin, and death.

Apart from the belief and dream of living matter, is the Life that is divine, revealing spiritual understanding, and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth. This understanding, casts out error and heals the sick, and with it you may speak “as one having authority.”

I have taught my students the leadings of true prayer. Let them answer to-day, whether they have followed those leadings. A great sacrifice of material things must precede this advanced spiritual understanding.

The highest prayer is not one of faith merely; it is demonstration. Such prayer heals sickness and sin. It distinguishes between the falsity of sinful sense, and the Soul that is immortal because it is sinless.

Only as we rise above all sensuality and sin can we reach the standpoint of the Lord's Prayer, and instantaneously heal the sick.

If we pray to God as a person, this will prevent us from letting go the human doubts and fears that attend all personality; and so we cannot grasp the wonders