Testimony of Healing February 27, 2017 Issue

First Reader healed in church

Wendy Margolese

As First Reader in my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I not only prepare to conduct the principal part of the service, but I also pray for the service—that it meet the needs of all congregants. I have found a poem titled “The Reader Prays” (Grace K. Sticht, Christian Science Sentinel, March 29, 1947) most inspirational, and I often pray with it before a service.

One Sunday as I was at the desk (or lectern) reading from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy in the next-to-last section of the Bible Lesson-Sermon, suddenly it felt as if my whole body were on fire, and I was instantly soaked in sweat. My reading became faint as I felt I was losing consciousness. An alert church member stepped forward to the platform to take my place. I sank gratefully into a front-row seat.

Since members had studied the wonderful lesson for that week, “God the Preserver of Man” (how appropriate!), and brought their inspiration to the service, I felt the support of the congregation. Like-minded individuals who acknowledged the nothingness of evil and the allness of perfect God—and the perfection of man in God’s image—surrounded me!

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