When Christian Science was presented to me about twenty years...

Ludovie Ricoux with contributions from G. Jerry Goolsby, Gail Goolsby, Geneva Goolsby

When Christian Science was presented to me about twenty years ago, I was suffering from a virus disease, supposedly incurable; I had consulted the greatest physicians in Paris, where I lived at that time, and all treatment had failed. I immediately took up the study of this beautiful religion, and I was healed in one treatment by a practitioner.

Some years later when I was living abroad, I was preparing to go to France to take class instruction when, some days before my departure, I was awakened in the night by an overall illness—fever, vomiting, and weakness being the symptoms. During the few days which preceded my departure, my condition grew worse in spite of my efforts to dispel this false suggestion and to replace it with the truth that the child of God cannot be the victim of evil. I could take no food, and my husband was not willing to let me set off in this condition. I had prepared for this event with so much joy that I cried out to God with all the strength left to me, and my husband consented to my going, entrusting me to God, our Father-Mother.

I traveled with a woman friend who was also taking class instruction. In the airplane the hostess wanted to administer a drug to support me; but my friend and I held firmly to the truth, and she quoted passages from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, including this one (p. 302) : "It is impossible that man should lose aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his." Another is on page 259, "Man is not absorbed in Deity, and man cannot lose his individuality, for he reflects eternal Life." These magnificent statements sustained me.

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