It is a joy to testify to the healing efficacy of Christian Science. Since I began the study of this truly scientific religion in 1953 I have been healed of chronic tooth troubles, colds, digestive disorders, and of an inclination toward mad ambition, false appetites, and mental despair.
Because of a serious foot condition, which required massage and especially high arch supports, I was discharged from active service in the Swiss Army and put into the reserve corps. My progressive understanding of the spiritual truths revealed in Christian Science gradually corrected the defect, and after I had come to the United States I was able to assume with complete freedom the duties of a mountain trip camp counselor in the White Mountains of New England during two consecutive summers. Because I relied on the one infinite divine Mind for guidance while on the trails of these beautiful mountains all the trips were completed without a single mishap, although the campers were in no way used to hiking or mountain climbing.
In Isaiah we read (42:16): "I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them." This promise made by God has been fulfilled again and again in my experience. It was wintertime when I first began to read a biography in German of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in a low, heatless room in a Swiss mountaineers' hut. What a glorious and uplifting experience it was to look out of the window and behold the glistening white peaks always capped with snow and at the same time to glimpse some of the eternal, spiritual truths of the Science of real being!
