WELCOME October 15, 2001 Issue

A global circle of prayer

The Editors

This Week's Sentinel is about prayer. Prayer that goes beyond one's immediate family, or even one's country. It's about prayer that starts in the heart and ripples out to encircle everyone in the world, regardless of race, religion, nationality, or politics. It's about prayer built on understanding that each of us is a child of the one God.

At this writing, our universal brotherhood and sisterhood as God's children is under attack. Stereotypes, based on misperceptions and misunderstandings, have led to massive violence and loss of life in a number of countries. Such actions are a gross perversion of the divine reality of being. God's sons and daughters respect and love one another.

The words quoted on the cover of this issue were written by the woman who discovered Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. They explain why humanity can be so confident in the indomitable power of prayer. The full quote reads like this: "One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself;' annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry,—whatever is wrong is social, civil,criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.340).

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