It is impossible for me to express in words the gratitude I feel in my heart. My desire is to prove by my life that I really am grateful for the grace, mercy, and love which God has bestowed upon my family and me throughout the years we have known of Christian Science.
For twenty-eight years it has been our mainstay. It has taught us how to put off the old man and to put on the new. Even though this may have been accomplished only in a small degree as yet, thanks to God's great grace, which always bestows upon us more than we ask and comprehend, we have experienced wonderful healings and protection during sickness and also at the time of accidents. Christian Science has been our adviser, our support, and our protector in all situations. As our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 105), "Christian Science is an everlasting victor, and vanquishment is unknown to the omnipresent Truth."
According to the testimony of the material senses this did not seem to be true during the last few years, but that was an illusion. Some of my friends and I, who for its sake were imprisoned and interned in a concentration camp, experienced the truth of these words. There, too, this truth healed the sick, comforted the sorrowing, gave hope and confidence to despairing hearts, and reformed the sinner, thus enabling him to catch a glimpse of himself as the child of God. In its presence cruelty and brutality were silenced. I found the promise true (Luke 21:18), "There shall not an hair of your head perish."
