Article September 22, 1973 Issue

How to Pray Effectively

ARNOLD H. EXO

"Just wrap him in a blanket. He won't live through the night."

That is what the doctor said when he attended my mother at my birth. From his point of view there was little hope; in addition to being premature, I had serious defects in some of the vital organs.

My parents were Christian Scientists. When I grew up, they told me the story of my birth. They were grateful for the doctor's services, but they did not accept his verdict. Yes, they wrapped me in a blanket. But much more, they wrapped me in their prayers, not only on that first night, but during the two years which followed, when at times it seemed I would not survive. They never dosed me with medicine. They trusted God. They did not doubt. And I lived.

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