It is with a heart full of gratitude that I testify to what Christian Science has done for me. Nineteen years ago I suffered so severely with rheumatic pain that I had to be taken to a hospital, where I remained fourteen weeks; I was dismissed, however, without having been cured. I applied all material means, but while the pain would seem to grow less, with every change of the weather it became so severe that I would be bed fast for weeks at a time. As years passed by many other diseases were added,—heart disease, liver complaint, bladder trouble, etc. I also suffered for years with bilious attacks, and had to submit to an operation on the throat. I was indeed a wretched woman.
Five years ago I heard of Christian Science, took treatment from a Scientist and from that moment felt better. I was healed instantaneously of the bilious attacks, and seven weeks later I was healthier than I had ever been before—Christian Science had freed me of all my diseases. In the year 1907 all my face and the right arm up to the elbow were burned in a gas explosion. The right hand became stiff, but I soon realized that there is no pain in divine consciousness, that God is omnipresent, all Life, Truth, and Love; that this experience of being burned was but a phase of error. I declared the truth for about twenty minutes, and the pain was completely gone, so that I was able to resume my work. In the afternoon, however, I called upon a Scientist, who gave me present and later on absent treatment, and I was completely healed. My gratitude to God is great, and also to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who has shown us the way to Truth, so that I am now able to prove my understanding of God by my life.— Berlin, W., Germany.
