Testimony of Healing October 12, 2015 Issue

Injured eye restored

Shirley Sims Schmidt

Listening to the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church and reports of individuals “on fire with the Christ message,” I was reminded of the landlady who introduced me to Christian Science many years ago.

Early in my career I was transferred to another state, far from the church where I had been active. The first Sunday after I moved into my new apartment, my landlady invited me to go to a local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, with her and a friend. I was a little curious, as I didn’t know anything about Christian Science, so I accepted her invitation. She also shared The Christian Science Monitor and The Christian Science Journal and Sentinel magazines with me. I knew she was a serious student of the Bible because she had shown me her study room, which had multiple dictionaries and other reference materials. It was obvious she spent a lot of time studying her religion.

I attended her church, and I went the following Sunday, too. One of the women there asked me when I read the Lesson. I had no idea what she was talking about. When we got home, I asked my landlady, and she explained that the Lesson-Sermon read at the Sunday service is also studied individually by Christian Scientists throughout the week. I thought reading that whole Lesson every day was an incomprehensible practice. The church where I’d grown up had a short preprinted devotion that I read quickly, and each day it was different.

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