At about six o'clock in the afternoon one day, I received a long...

Luz Efre

At about six o'clock in the afternoon one day, I received a long distance telephone call telling me that my younger brother was seriously ill and in a coma due to a case of blood poisoning. I was also told that his blood was of such a rare type that even though the radio stations were requesting donors, none had appeared. I was told that the case had been given up for lost and that if I did not come immediately I would not see him alive. All medical treatment had been suspended. I was sixteen hundred miles away at the time.

At that moment I began to pray fervently, declaring that man is "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind." That is the definition of man that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, gives on page 591 of her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

I made the necessary arrangements to leave a city which was more than forty miles from New York so that there I could obtain airplane passage to Puerto Rico. The way in which everything unfolded was marvelous. It seemed as if an angel was going before me, giving me the spiritual strength to move easily and procure the money for the passage and a one-way ticket on a plane that was leaving immediately. After a trip without any difficulty, I arrived at the San Juan airport, where I obtained a seat in a car that was leaving right away for the city where my brother was.

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