In 1909 a friend called my father's...

Ilse Dolscius

In 1909 a friend called my father's attention to Christian Science. From childhood my father had suffered from a painful affliction of the head, the effects of meningitis. He went to a distant city to see a practitioner and asked him for an explanation of Science and also for help. After two weeks' treatment he came home healed and transformed, and thus this religion came into our home.

Soon after, when a child of ten, I was healed of peritonitis, although I had been given up by the doctors. This healing strengthened my parents' confidence, particularly my mother's, in God's all-power. At first under the guidance of my parents, who often turned to Christian Science for help and received it, and later with an increasing desire to seek the truth for myself, I began to grow in spiritual understanding.

I was sustained through school troubles, examinations, tasks undertaken during my training period, and difficulties encountered during my first years at work by trusting in the spiritual truths of God and man. Because I wanted to serve the Cause of Christian Science, I joined a branch church and The Mother Church at an early age, and I am grateful that I have had class instruction.

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