Profound and sincere gratitude prompts me to write this testimony of a most wonderful and beautiful proof of the power of Truth. From earliest childhood I suffered from an internal trouble, which grew worse from year to year, until at last paralysis of the bowels set in. Other organs were affected, and the result was a nervous breakdown, which according to physicians was incurable. The last few years I spent most of the time in sanitariums, but was helped only temporarily. When all medical skill had failed, I was treated by a magnetic healer. At first my condition improved steadily, but after a time the error asserted itself more strongly than ever.
One day I heard of Christian Science; but I did not pay much attention to it, because I thought it was some fanatical doctrine. But I said to myself, "Before you can judge a doctrine you must examine it," and so I attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. It made a great impression on me; and although I went abroad shortly afterwards, the thought accompanied me, and I often heard Christian Science spoken of by friends. At this time my condition grew worse, and paralysis set in. My one hope and desire was to get back to Dresden. I went back, and the first thing I did was to go to church to inquire about a Christian Science practitioner. I began to have treatment at once. In two weeks I was perfectly healed of the intestinal complaint, and all the other complaints left me in a short time.
Not only was I completely restored, but God was revealed to me in the most wonderful manner. I learned to know what the true knowledge of God is. Even when I was quite young I was a seeker for the light, and through my long illness I clung all the more to God, going from one religious system to another, since for a long time the church had not been able to give me what I needed. For years I lived in solitude and had only the one desire—Godwards. But all my seeking and studying for the truth did not satisfy me for any length of time. Now I have found everything in this simple Christ-teaching, the truth which makes us free—free from the so-called human laws of sin, disease, and death! "As it had been scales" fell from my eyes, and I saw that it was only the bondage of the material senses that had held me so long in fetters. Now I have awakened somewhat from this Adam-dream to the conscious freedom of the children of God.— Dresden, Germany.
