Editorial January 27, 1992 Issue

What it's all about

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

During the week when I was writing this editorial, some especially interesting items came across the desk. That's putting it mildly. Actually these were things that made you want to shout, "Yes, yes, yes, that's what Christian Science is all about!"

One was the manuscript of a religious article for The Christian Science Monitor. The first draft of this article had mentioned very briefly the lessons a family had learned about not being held hostage to terminal illness. The Editors asked for some further information, and back came a detailed account of a daughter's healing of medically diagnosed illness usually considered incurable. And tucked in was a letter by a neighbor who is not a Christian Scientist. It turned out that the neighbor, an M.D., now retired, had watched the daughter being healed over the course of four years.

Then there was a testimony of healing making its way through the verification process as it headed for Sentinel publication. It tells of the healing through Christian Science of a medically diagnosed autistic child. The diagnosis and prognosis were when the child was three and a half years old. The child is now in the sixth grade and, instead of being in a special needs class, is in a class for students who excel.

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