I was led to Christian Science through my mother's healing of...

Edgar Geiss

I was led to Christian Science through my mother's healing of high blood pressure. Upon the recommendation of the doctors, she traveled to the capital city of our state, because the lowlands were considered better for her health. There, through an acquaintance, she was brought to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment through prayer. When we visited Mother in the winter, we became acquainted with the practitioner, who explained Science to us. We went to the church services of a group of Christian Scientists there. After that we bought Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and were told of the benefit we would receive if we studied it. We read now and then in it, but we didn't study it. It wasn't until some years later that several people were healed in our city through Christian Science. Thus this teaching became known here. Upon the recommendation of the practitioner, we and some friends began holding church services. Since then we have studied the Bible Lessons from the Christian Science Quarterly regularly and held weekly meetings.

Through a better spiritual understanding I soon became free of headaches, which I had had almost weekly, and I am free of them to this day. Colds, also, which I had always had in the winter, became more and more infrequent. Indigestion and constipation, from which I had always suffered, completely disappeared through the transformation of my thought; I have become free from these illnesses.

I had always been afraid to speak in public. But when I read of Moses' experience in Exodus (see 4:10–12), it became clear to me that God puts words in my mouth as well, and I realized I did not need to have any fear. Since then I have always felt free to speak in public when it was necessary or when I wanted to share accounts of healing with others.

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