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It wasn’t until years later that the mother told her son of this most remarkable prayer. She said that when her husband was praying she felt a new surge of life sweeping through her, as though she were receiving an electric shock. Something seemed to stir in her physical being as well as in her mind and when her husband rose from praying he said to her, calmly but sincerely, that he knew his prayer was answered, he knew that she would be restored to perfect health. And she was.

We can pass this incident off as one where God interfered on behalf of a certain man and performed a miracle for him. And we would be right enough in believing this because of the result—the woman actually was healed. But we shouldn’t pass the matter off as loosely as this; it is a too superficial analysis. Neither should we think of it merely as one of those rare instances where a Divine Power and Intelligence responded to this man in a way that it would not respond to someone else. In other words, while in his prayer the man, in a sense, argued with God, we can hardly believe that the Divine Intelligence is moved to act because of human arguments.

There is more to it than this. For no matter what method this man used, he was not arguing with God; he was really arguing with himself, and in that moment, through his argument, his own mind rose to a place of complete acceptance. It transcended the condition that confronted him. It rose above all human limitations and accepted the simple fact that the God he believed in would answer his prayer and restore the woman whom he loved to perfect health.