Although I was the offspring of Christian parents and grandparents, I myself was an agnostic and very unhappy. About thirty years ago I said to someone in our home, "I believe we are told about God as children are told about Santa Claus, and one day we shall be told that there is no God." I decided not to believe in God, but to do good as far as I understood it. When a relative sent me a copy of The Herald of Christian Science (German edition) I was at first unwilling to read it. Some weeks later, however, I decided I would. The result was that my desire to own a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was so great that, like the widow who cast her all into the treasury (Mark 12:41-44), I gave all the money I had to possess this textbook. The reading of it brought me such rich blessings that words cannot express fully my gratitude for Christian Science.
Through memorizing the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, found on pages 16 and 17 of the textbook, I was healed of headaches. There was much to be corrected in my thinking, but Truth prevailed. After that I was even more confident that I had found the right way to the true God. Our little son, at that time five years of age, was healed in one week of bronchitis, from which he had suffered since he was one year old. Children's diseases, such as measles, whooping cough, and mumps, were quickly overcome. Thanks to the help of a loving practitioner, who lived about seventy-five miles away, justice prevailed in a lawsuit that was forced upon us. Christian Science has been of inestimable value to us in the building up and continuance of our business.
One day our son was attacked by severe pains in his side. Fearing he had appendicitis, I called the practitioner. She began to work for him at once, and the next morning there was improvement. Two days later he was free. This healing took place over twenty-five years ago and has been permanent. Truly we can say with the Psalmist (Ps. 126:3), "The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad."
