Editorial March 14, 1988 Issue

At the core of Christian healing

Michael D. Rissler

Last summer I visited someone I'd known years ago. She is a fine person and has devoted her life to helping others. Her husband, a Christian minister, is gone now. Together they made a beautiful team. Her gracious spirit and warm generosity made my wife and me feel right at home from the moment we arrived. I thought of Mrs. Eddy's description of some of the Christian ministers she knew when she was growing up.

Mrs. Eddy wrote: "It was my fair fortune to be often taught by some grand old divines, among whom were the Rev. Abraham Burnham of Pembroke, N.H., Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D.D., of Concord, N.H., Congregationalists; Rev. Mr. Boswell, of Bow, N.H., Baptist; Rev. Enoch Corser, and Rev. Corban Curtice, Congregationalists; and Father Hinds, Methodist Elder. I became early a child of the Church, an eager lover and student of vital Christianity. Why I loved Christians of the old sort was I could not help loving them. Full of charity and good works, busy about their Master's business, they had no time or desire to defame their fellow-men.

"... with them Love was the governing impulse of every action; their piety was the all-important consideration of their being, the original beauty of holiness that to-day seems to be fading so sensibly from our sight." ^{Message to The Mother Church for 1901, pp. 31-33.}

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