My introduction to Christian Science...

Mabel Brandt

My introduction to Christian Science came after I humbly prayed for my children to get the right religious training. I began to study Science and to attend the church services and testimony meetings.

I had been partially deaf in one ear for many years. Suddenly I found myself entirely deaf in that ear. I did not do a thing about it because I found it rather convenient to lie on my good ear in bed and shut out the outside world.

Then I found myself becoming more and more deaf in the other ear, and then one Sunday morning in church I was unable to hear anything that was read from the desk.

My first thought was that I had never heard of a healing of deafness through Christian Science, and I started to feel very sorry for myself. However, I changed my thinking immediately and knew that "with God all things are possible" (Matt. 19:26).

From then on, I started to pray very earnestly. When I saw I had not made any progress after a few days, I called a practitioner for help because my family was becoming very much concerned.

While I was studying the current Bible Lessons, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, which was on Soul, I found this direct statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 214): "If the medium of hearing is wholly spiritual, it is normal and indestructible," and also the definition of "ears" (p. 585), "Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding." Also from the Bible I found this verse (Prov. 20:12): "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them."

I called the practitioner and told her not to work for me any more. I studied the lesson diligently all week and pondered these statements whenever conveniently possible. When at the end of the week I still could not hear, I was not the least bit concerned. I knew that the work the practitioner had done, as well as all my study, had to have results.

In my study I found a statement to the effect that having a healing enables one to help someone else. Then I studied even harder, since I felt this healing would be for the glory of God. Gradually I could hear little sounds around me until within a few days I could hear normally with both ears.

I am so very grateful for this healing, because it proved to me that no matter how long a difficulty has continued it can be healed by our trusting God. I am also very grateful for class instruction.—(Mrs.) Mabel Brandt, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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