For all the blessings that have come to me through Christian Science I wish to-day to express publicly my gratitude.
About four years ago I was healed through Christian Science of a severe stomach trouble. Since my childhood I was troubled with nausea, which grew worse every year. My father was troubled with the same disease, and I remember to have tried several dietetic cures without success. About seven years ago I had such a violent attack of this disease that our family physician sent me to a specialist for nervous diseases. I slept but little, because during the night and also during the day I had attacks which sometimes lasted for hours. I took hypnotic treatment for several weeks and was then dismissed as being healed. About six weeks later these spasmodic conditions appeared again. Again I went to the physician and received electric treatment, but no help. After another experiment, which brought relief for a short time, the disease was again manifested through great excitement and worse than before. In my despair I went to a magnetizer, but found the same result which I had experienced with the specialist for nervous trouble.
I then came to Berlin. The disease had gained such control over me that I could retain but very little food. Even the smell of food caused me nausea. A young lady, an American, told me of Christian Science. I did not oppose her statements in words, but did not go to the practitioner whose address she had given me; I went instead to a homæopathist, the last untried means. After that failed and I grew more miserable, I determined to go to the Christian Science practitioner. Although I read in a Sentinel while she treated me, I did not gain the slightest understanding that Christian Science was a religion; it was for me but a new method of healing. Great was my surprise when my question as to what I might eat, was answered with the words: "Whatever you wish to eat." While on my way home I began to feel hungry, which I had not done for months, and with a good appetite I ate a hearty dinner. From that day on I have been able to eat every kind of food and have never had the slightest return of the old trouble.
