Editorial March 30, 1987 Issue

Never-ending strength

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

A modest-sized statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in London has surprising power. There's nothing grandiose about its scale. But somehow it captures the quality of solid invincibility the world valued so much in the man himself.

To Churchill the odds just didn't seem to matter. For him the ideal was thoroughly real. He believed this ideal should call forth every ounce of loyalty and that those sticking to it would be victorious. His words have meant a lot to people in the course of their own personal struggles. "Never give in," he said. "Never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."^{ Charles Eade, ed., The Unrelenting Struggle (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1942), p. 287 .}

I've sometimes thought of those words in connection with several of my own Christian Science healings that took a number of years, as well as in connection with some of the testimonies of spiritual healing in the pages of the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Journal.

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