Editorial November 20, 2017 Issue

The power of asking

Margaret Rogers

Mary Baker Eddy closed her autobiographical work, Retrospection and Introspection, with a poem that pretty well sums up her own lifelong aim and what she hoped students of Christian Science would strive for:

Ask God to give thee skill
In comfort’s art:
That thou may’st consecrated be
And set apart
Unto a life of sympathy.
For heavy is the weight of ill
In every heart;
And comforters are needed much
Of Christlike touch.
—A. E. Hamilton (p. 95)