workaday world or on conditions in the world at large. The first step in scientific silence is simply to still these outer intellectual thoughts so that the consciousness may become subservient to the Spirit within.

The operation of prayer saves the soul from all past and future mistakes. In prayer we are led not to doubt, distrust, or hate man but to love him with all our mind, soul, and strength. Instead of fighting life and struggling to compete with millions of others in the same foolish war, we cooperate. Instead of wasting energy in tearing down, we conserve in building up. Prayer shows humanity how to love life, how to love the Author of life, and how to love life's activities. In this state of consciousness man automatically drops the burdens of the intellect and enters into the freedom of real living. Man must have the spiritual ability to discern life's perfect pattern if he is to fulfill the requirements of scientific prayer.

By quieting the mental man, by passing through the discipline of intellectual silence, man arrives at the very threshold of God's workshop, the threshold of Being. As he passes into the inner chamber he finds he is entering the holy of holies, where noiselessly, silently, a mighty work is always going on. God works in the stillness.