Editorial August 19, 1991 Issue

We can know our prayers make a difference

Elaine Natale

In a modern, secular world that sometimes sneers at prayer—insisting that doesn't work—thousands of people from all reaches of the globe keep insisting that it does.

They offer their lives as proof. They share the ways they've been rescued, protected, healed. The Sentinel is dedicated to keeping up a watch, you might say, of this activity. It provides a means for people everywhere to know how prayer works and to share the powerful evidence of it. Each week, the Sentinel receives substantial mail describing how prayer has brought changes in the health and well-being of individuals, families, and also in other challenging situations.

Those who are convinced that prayer does work still sometimes wonder how it can help with the wider problems in the world—such as war, so-called natural disasters, the environment, the economy. How can what someone is praying in one part of the world affect what's happening in another part? It can if the person is praying on the basis of more than just his own fond hopes or personal thoughts. If the one praying has an understanding—a Christianly scientific understanding—of the eternal truth of being which Christ Jesus taught, the prayer can have a significant healing influence.

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