Article March 18, 1972 Issue

Undefeated

TERRANCE BRYAN EDWARDS

A city newspaper's printing schedule was recently seriously disrupted by machine breakdowns and staff shortages. About ninety minutes before the final deadline, the distraught printing manager advised the editor in charge: "The paper is going to be anything up to an hour late. There is nothing we can do about it."

It was a disturbing report, for it meant the loss of major distribution connections and considerable extra financial cost. The editor, who was a Christian Scientist, returned to his office, not willing to accept the diagnosis. Humanly, there was nothing he could do to speed the work. But he could and did pray—not for a miracle but for a clearer understanding of the reality of the situation, of God, divine Spirit, and of man as His spiritual offspring.

The editor knew that the material picture of lack and breakdown, and of human inadequacy to deal with them, could not form part of the ideal universe created by God. If it could, then to pray would be as pointless as to appeal to the rules of arithmetic to make two and two equal five.

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