It gives me great pleasure to express my thanks for the change which Christian Science has brought into my life. For years it has been my endeavor to overcome a deadened sense within myself. I investigated various religions and philosophies, but a feeling of homesickness kept staying with me. I had heard of Christian Science, although in just a superficial way, when years ago I met some ladies whom I knew to be adherents of its teachings. Their mode of life and their attitude toward other people, as well as toward human suffering, awakened the desire in me to approach the subject of Christian Science, but I did not seem to find the way thereto, and when I told one of these ladies how sorry I was that this should be so, she confidently replied that when I really felt my need of Science, it would come into my life; and strange to say, I did come to understand Science just at a time when I needed it most — while laboring under a sense of fear and discouragement, and feeling mentally and physically wretched.
Since Christmas, 1908, Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has been my friend and constant companion, helping me daily to see new beauties and sources of joy in life. It is wonderful, indeed, how my attitude toward my fellow-beings has changed, since I have been trying to think and act according to the teachings of Christian Science; and their attitude, too, toward me has changed, for never before did I experience so much kindness and love! I am greatly indebted, also, to God for the loving way in which I was helped to find the truth. I am now treading the path of life without fear, fresh in body as well as in mind. I am also grateful for the quick help in attacks of catarrhal trouble, Which used to be a great annoyance in my profession as a singer, but which disappeared almost immediately when the truth was declared for me.
My desire is to learn more and more how to prove my gratitude by my life, and thereby to be a help to others in finding the way which has blessed me so abundantly. Dresden, Germany.
