About a year ago I heard of Christian Science, and I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings which it has brought to me and my family.
I was then suffering with an obstinate spinal disease which always caused me pain when I was working. All possible means were tried to relieve the trouble, but in vain, and I finally became unable to work. Being a believer in the so-called natural method of healing, I was treated by a noted physician of that school. For four weeks I took daily the most complicated steam and incandescent light baths, each of which cost nearly five francs. Yet even this was of no avail. I felt no better. The physician spoke of paralysis of the spinal marrow and I became afraid of my future; but man's extremity is God's opportunity.
I then heard of Christian Science, but I confess that I could not believe in it. I was, however, willing to be convinced, and attended a Christian Science Sunday service which made such an impression upon me that I felt the desire to go to their next Wednesday meeting. This was a testimonial meeting. After I had listened to several testimonies my doubts were removed. Joyfully I went to a practitioner the following morning, told her of my trouble, and asked her to give me treatment immediately. After two weeks I felt better, and after four weeks' treatment I was healed. When I am working very hard, I feel now and then a very slight touch of my old trouble, but as soon as I have rested a little, it always disappears. God be praised for His mercy!
What a great blessing has come to me and my whole family through Christian Science. We were expecting a child and the physician had told my wife that she must look for the birth to be premature. She was in very poor health and was hardly able to walk to the village. She suffered with varicose veins in her left leg, which made it very difficult for her to walk. Divine Love has helped her also. As my health improved, her condition changed. As weeks passed by, she grew stronger. Before the baby arrived, she had two treatments and felt so well that she did her own washing the day before the baby came. God being the healer, the birth of which they had been trying to make her afraid was natural and easy as never before.
Our little boy is now five months old. When he was four weeks old, he was taken ill and it looked as if we must lose him, but we called for Christian Science help and now he is well and strong.
Our little girls, five and a half and two and a half years old, owe their health to this blessed teaching. The older one had suffered for about two years; she was always ailing. She had stomach trouble once in about four or six weeks and after that was unable to eat anything for almost two weeks. We tried all kinds of medicine and also the so-called natural method of healing; but, God be praised, the Lord hath done great things to us. The dear child is so well, and she is very happy when she can attend the Sunday service with me, which we do quite regularly. Our other little girl was also healed of whooping-cough.
I cannot thank God enough that He has led us into this way. I am also grateful to our revered Leader through whom this blessed teaching has been revealed anew to the world. I also wish to express my gratitude to those who have brought the truth to our dear country and I am grateful to our practitioner, who is so dear to us all.
I was very sick, not only physically, but mentally; but the light has come into this darkness and I earnestly hope that it may grow brighter and brighter. A new happiness has come to my modest home, a new peace abides with us, and God will give us His blessing.
Oerlikon bei Zurich, Switzerland.
