The Touch of Class July 9, 2012 Issue

In this occasional series, individuals share how taking Christian Science Primary class instruction has strengthened their spiritual understanding and brought increasing inspiration and healing to their lives.

Training for effective healers

Phyllis Wahlberg—Muskegon, Michigan

I attended a Christian Science Sunday School nearly every week until my late teens. Although I didn’t practice Christian Science much for the next 10–12 years, I was aware of all I had been taught by many dedicated, knowledgeable Sunday School teachers. Later, after taking up the study of Christian Science again, I rather smugly thought there wasn’t much that could be taught in a 12–day class that I hadn’t learned in so many years of Sunday School. 

I joined my local branch church and then The Mother Church. I rarely missed a day reading the Christian Science Bible Lesson. I rejoiced in healings, some through my own prayers and some through help from Christian Science practitioners.

Gradually, I became a more serious student of the Bible, Mary Baker Eddy’s writings, and the Christian Science periodicals. I came to realize that Mrs. Eddy knew what she was doing when she established Primary class instruction. I started feeling left out from those who enjoyed annual Christian Science students’ association meetings and reported the deep inspiration they felt from those meetings. Just a couple of years ago, I realized the time had come for me to take class instruction, and I was led through prayer to my teacher. Articles she had written for the periodicals really spoke to me. 

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