Testimony of Healing March 4, 1972 Issue

In founding The Christian Science Monitor, Mary Baker Eddy...

Dartha Heath

In founding The Christian Science Monitor, Mary Baker Eddy said, "The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353). And I can certainly verify the healing, Christian efficacy of the Monitor in my life. Reading this great newspaper has helped strip my thinking of so many bigotries, prejudices, and misconceptions—many times of kinds of ignorance I had hardly been aware of.

I would like to relate an experience we had in our neighborhood after the Monitor series entitled "Children in Trouble: A National Scandal" by Howard James.

One evening our doorbell rang, and there was a disturbed neighbor with a petition in her hand. After we invited her inside, she began her story. Her house on our street was next door to an institution originally planned for children from broken homes. The last three years, instead of taking in this type of child, the Home had by necessity taken in so-called "problem boys" from the ages of eight to fourteen, about twenty-five of them. Most of these boys were truants from school, and so had to be tutored by special teachers until they were ready to return to their former homes and schools. They were a rough group of boys, some black, some white, from poor homes. Many of the immediate neighbors had found rocks thrown through their windows (as we had) and radio antennas taken from cars parked on the street. Residents had been abused by uncouth language while walking by the Home or awakened by noisy shouts early in the morning. And so some of the neighbors had hired a lawyer and, as the visitor in our home explained, were asking for signatures on a petition to remove the Home to another part of the city, or preferably to the country somewhere.

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