Editorial December 30, 1991 Issue

"There was fresh air coming in through the window"

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

A recent letter from a man in Nigeria tells of being visited in the hospital by his best friend, who brought him a copy of the Sentinel. "When I was reading it," he writes, "there was fresh air coming in through the window. I felt very comfortable and slept over. When I woke up there was full of life and all the sickness has gone away. I was discharged and I go praise the living God."

The slightly fractured English lets a meaning come through that might not have made it in some immaculately "correct" articulation.

How many times, after a Christian Science healing, have we felt just the way the letter writer did, felt as though the fresh air of divine Spirit was touching our cheek, felt as though it was possible to begin again, new and clean and full of life.

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