It is a great joy to me to tell of all that Christian Science has done for me. When this name was mentioned to me for the first time I was suffering greatly from what physicians called a tumor in the intestines. I had been operated on four times without being in the least relieved. On the contrary, I suffered even more, for to the old pains were added the effects of the operations. Thinking that the doctors in America knew more than those here in Switzerland, I consulted one in New York, in the hope that he might help me. But he also declared that nothing could be done. Suffering day and night, I heard of Christian Science; and at once my friend and I decided to buy the book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. We both began to read this wonderful book, and from that day on we have continued to study it.
The first thing I understood was that to have confidence in medicine and in God at the same time is impossible. We cannot obey two masters. I at once decided to give God as much chance as I had given medicine all the years, so I threw away all the bottles and powders. The second point that became clear to me was that if God is All-in-all, if He is Life, I need not be afraid to eat anything; for to fear to eat a certain food was to give that food the power to do an evil. I would thus have a false god by giving power to the food, and so depart from the basis of the Bible and of Science—one God. I therefore decided at once to eat whatever was set before me; and although my condition did not improve, it did not grow worse. For several weeks we did little else but read the wonderful book: nothing else interested us. Then one morning I awoke feeling well. All pain had gone. I can never forget the new, wonderful feeling of being able to go around like other people. Two years after my healing I suddenly began to have pains again; but I soon found out that it was because I was not applying what I understood of Christian Science. As soon as I lived in my daily life the little I had grasped, I felt well, and have felt so ever since, now over sixteen years.
Although I am most grateful for this healing, my heart overflows with gratitude for the new light Christian Science has brought into my life. It has shown me that our problems are really only opportunities teaching us to become more and more impersonal, to let others have all the good we demand for ourselves.
