New Thought is reaching people who cannot pray.

 

William James wrote in The Varieties of Religious Experience, p.78:

 

    The plain fact remains that the spread of the movement has been due to practical fruits ... It matters nothing that, just as there are hosts of persons who cannot pray, so there are greater hosts who cannot by any possibility be influenced by the mind-curers’ ideas. For our immediate purpose, the important point is that so large a number should exist who CAN be so influenced. They form a psychic type to be studied with respect. ... It is evidently bound to develop still farther, both speculatively and practically, and its latest writers are far and away the ablest of the group [45]: [45] I refer to Mr. Horatio W. Dresser and Mr. Henry Wood, especially the former. Mr. Dresser’s works are published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London; Mr. Wood’s by Lee & Shepard Boston.

In other words
New Thought is reaching people who cannot pray. And New Thought is not only reaching them, it is bearing practical fruit in their life.  
from https://www.truthunity.net/people/henry-wood 2022

 

 

NEW THOUGHT is a new way of thinking about man, God, the world and about thought itself. Instead of regarding thought as ephemeral, powerless when unexpressed, unimportant and non-visible, advanced thinkers declare it to be the greatest of all the dynamics in the world; that it has actual, direct, effectual and immediate influence upon everything, event and hum an being in the universe according to its quality and its quantity.

It takes form in all that is visible and is the substance of all that appears to our senses. Thoughts are things and things are thoughts. “Thing” and “think” are twin words, according to the etymology of our language, and a their root are one.
W HAT IS NEW THOUGHT?
BY ANNIE RIX MILITZ
1915 THE MASTER MIND