Christian Science was brought to us by a friend of one of my sisters, a friend whom we all cherished and loved. She had been healed through Christian Science. The last time she had left us, to go to America, the doctor's verdict was that she was incurably ill. Then she came back radiant and well. In reply to our questions she told us that she had been healed through Christian Science. She immediately began to read through for the first time the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy—it had not then been translated into German—and she read to us from the German edition of The Herald of Christian Science.
My heart sang for blessed joy: God, the Father-Mother of us all, has created all good. Only good is real for all men, and all the sorrow and misery of mankind is only a bad dream. But I did not think about myself in this connection. This pure joy, this vision of salvation for the whole world, healed me of so-called incurable sickness. From that hour on I lived a new life and promised myself to prove my gratitude through my life. The next day, Sunday, I accompanied our guest to the Christian Science service. When I awoke that day I felt ill. Formerly I would not have dared to get up in such a condition. Now, however, I no longer thought thus, but knew that God's child is well. He cannot be sick. While I was getting dressed the illness disappeared, and it never came again. The service did me much good, and "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health (p. 468), with the correlative passage from I John 3:1-3,"Now are we the sons of God," resounded long after in my ears.
From the very beginning, in 1904, my sister and I experienced glorious proofs of healing in our family and with others who came to us, and oftentimes instantaneous healings. An aunt who lived with us had been told a few months before that she already had the strongest lens in her glasses, that because she was too old there was no more help possible for her. By listening to the reading aloud of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, and of some of the literature which one of my sisters and I translated, she was healed so that soon she was reading and writing without glasses.
