Christian Science has always been for me a precious guide

Alain Rakhmanoff

Christian Science has always been for me a precious guide. I had the joy of being reared in Christian Science, and because of this I received instruction in the Christian Science Sunday School from the age of four.

A healing I had at the age of twelve showed me the marvelous power of the Christ. I was at a holiday camp far from my family, and one evening, feeling suddenly very tired, I decided to go to bed without eating my dinner. The director of the camp, noticing my absence from the meal, came to see me and in spite of my protests sent for a doctor. The latter took me at once to the hospital, declaring that I was seriously ill.

During the journey I affirmed the truth of man created spiritually and not materially, as I had learned in the Sunday School. But in spite of that, when I arrived at the hospital I experienced violent pain and lost consciousness. When I regained consciousness, I was in a hospital bed surrounded by several doctors who were telling me that I had a severe attack of appendicitis and they were going to operate at once. To their common astonishment, I declared that I forbade them to operate on me and wished to speak to my parents. They called my parents on the telephone. My parents comforted me and told me that while I was in a coma they had asked for prayerful treatment for me of a Christian Science practitioner and they were coming to see me.

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