Article April 25, 2011 ISSUE

Justice through reliance on prayer

By Louis Mulumba Mwamba

In April 1984, Christian Science came into my life while I was working in a shoe factory in Kinshasa, and at the same time taking a religious course by correspondence to become a pastor. I abandoned this course shortly after I started to study Christian Science as I found this teaching very appealing to me. Since then, I have had many blessings, which if recounted would take many pages.

Not long after I had been offered a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, a problem broke out at our factory. The workers were unhappy with their wages. They believed that the personnel manager was influencing the owners of the company, all whites, not to increase workers’ salaries. So, they wanted him out. The manager claimed that he was innocent. The atmosphere was tense and attempted mediations failed.

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