Testimony of Healing June 19, 1995 Issue

I had been brought up always to say prayers before going to...

Albert S. Bridger with contributions from Avice D. Bridger

I had been brought up always to say prayers before going to sleep. After marrying a Christian Scientist, I continued my custom of quietly reciting prayers which, after the birth of our second child, included a request that God would reveal to us to which denomination we should all belong in order that we might be united in worship. I did not then know this: "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds" (Science and Health, p. 1). After we moved to another district, my wife began taking our children to a Christian Science Sunday School.

One Sunday morning some time later, I had the desire to go to church with my wife and the children. I listened carefully to the Lesson-Sermon, and at the end of the service was very impressed by the obvious logic of "the scientific statement of being." Soon I knew that God had answered my prayer, and from that time adopted Christian Science as my religion. I was later to read, "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13). Eventually I began to study the Lesson daily.

At that time I had been suffering for years from sinusitis, and was never without a nasal decongestant handy. My doctor had understandingly informed me that he also suffered from this and that there was no known cure. I was so new to Christian Science that I did not realize I could pray for myself or get a practitioner to treat that supposedly incurable disease. However, I continued to study the Lesson.

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