Scientific Prayer as Revealed by Christian Science Margaret
Matters, C.S.B., of Member of the Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Massachusetts Margaret Matters, C.S.B., of The lecturer spoke
substantially as follows: A discovery implies the unveiling of
something which already exists. Small incidents may reveal to
the thinker hitherto unknown laws. Sometimes discoveries are
made through study and research, or experimentation may bring to
light facts that have always existed but of which mankind has
been ignorant. The discovery of Christian Science came about
through prayer - not through that prayer which is supplication
or entreaty, but through the prayer which the Discoverer and
Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, describes (No and
Yes, p. 39) as making "new and scientific discoveries of God, of
His goodness and power. It shows us more clearly than we saw
before, what we already have and are; and most of all, it shows
us what God is." It wa