At about six o'clock in the afternoon one day, I received a long...

Luz Efre

At about six o'clock in the afternoon one day, I received a long distance telephone call telling me that my younger brother was seriously ill and in a coma due to a case of blood poisoning. I was also told that his blood was of such a rare type that even though the radio stations were requesting donors, none had appeared. I was told that the case had been given up for lost and that if I did not come immediately I would not see him alive. All medical treatment had been suspended. I was sixteen hundred miles away at the time.

At that moment I began to pray fervently, declaring that man is "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind." That is the definition of man that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, gives on page 591 of her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

I made the necessary arrangements to leave a city which was more than forty miles from New York so that there I could obtain airplane passage to Puerto Rico. The way in which everything unfolded was marvelous. It seemed as if an angel was going before me, giving me the spiritual strength to move easily and procure the money for the passage and a one-way ticket on a plane that was leaving immediately. After a trip without any difficulty, I arrived at the San Juan airport, where I obtained a seat in a car that was leaving right away for the city where my brother was.

During the trip I did nothing but maintain in my thinking the idea of my brother's true selfhood as the man of God's creating. The Bible declares (Gen. 1:26, 27): "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. ... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." On page 475 in Science and Health I read the question, "What is man?" and its answer, which includes the truth that "man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death." I refused all the while to admit what human sense would have me believe.

At eleven in the morning the following day, I was able to get to the hospital where my brother was confined. There I met people who commented on the decided improvement my brother had experienced after six o'clock the day before. My arrival resulted in a joyous reunion with him. The nurse told me that while he was unconscious he had called me several times and asked me to pray for him. After his immediate recovery the hospital authorities kept him there three days under observation. No medical treatment was given, and I stayed at the hospital with him during those three days, continuing to pray for him.

This experience was a tangible demonstration for me of the power of prayer and its healing effect as taught in Christian Science. It was at that time that I determined to dedicate my life to the service of the Church of Christ, Scientist. I am deeply grateful to Christian Science for the way it has remodeled my life.

(Miss) Luz Efre, Santurce, Puerto Rico

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