With a grateful heart I should like to bear witness to a wonderful healing experienced through Christian Science. It occurred when I first heard of this Science. For a number of weeks I had suffered from a very painful inflammation of the middle ear,' so that I sought medical aid from an ear specialist of high reputation in Berlin. After several weeks this doctor informed me very tactfully that my hearing could not be saved. In spite of all the efforts he had made, I was to remain deaf in one ear! Quite dejected, I returned to the house where I lived and told a fellow boarder, who was a Christian Scientist, of the doctor's verdict. She advised me not to leave untried the last resort and to have Christian Science treatment. I asked a practitioner for help. I had one treatment and was healed then and there. Overjoyed and grateful that I could again hear everything as clearly as before, I ran back to the house, stopping again and again on the way, holding the other ear closed to see whether I could hear with the previously deaf ear. Everything was as it should be and remained so. There was never any relapse or weakness in hearing.
Then, through great disappointments, I strayed away from Christian Science for some years. Again I became ill, this time with ulcers of the stomach. Once more I called in medical aid, without realizing that God, Mind, is the only healer. The doctor insisted on an operation if there was to be any help at all for me. The pain increased immeasurably, the stomach would take no more nourishment, and I would not hear of an operation.
Then my mother said to me, "You had so much help from Christian Science at one time; take it up again!" I asked for help from a local practitioner, who immediately took up the work for me. After two treatments I was absolutely healed. When the pain stopped I found I had a big appetite; everything agreed with me, and I did not need to keep to any diet. I have remained hale and hearty to this day.
