I should have written this testimony years ago, but it was hard for me to express myself well in the English language, as I was born in Switzerland. It was through a salesman who came to our place of business in 1906 that we first heard of Christian Science. He said that his wife had been healed of kidney trouble through Christian Science after much money had been spent on materia medica and she had not received any relief or been given any hope of recovery by some of the most noted physicians in America. The same man gave us a Christian Science Sentinel and told us where we could find a practitioner.
I was having many headaches and had been troubled time after time with erysipelas, which I feared so much I was ready to try anything that would relieve me of that disease. Under medical treatment I had to stay in bed three or four weeks at a time, and I had such a fear of drafts that often when I went out of doors I would have a relapse. Before having Christian Science treatment I hardly went out of the house without a big shawl drawn over me. I cannot express in words what a relief it was to me to overcome this fear. I have had attacks of this disease since coming into Christian Science, but I never have had to go through a long period of convalescence again.
I had never been satisfied with my religion or my God, as I could not see how He could send so much sickness and sin to His children. After purchasing and reading a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I gradually understood that God, who is Love, did not send all this misery, but that troubles came because men did not live according to the law of God.
