Testimonies of Healing
At the age of twelve I suffered with abscessed teeth. I was taken to a doctor, who said the poison from these teeth had entered the system and there was nothing he could do.
In 1945, I was healed of asthma through Christian Science. I had contracted it while working surrounded with bauxite dust used in the making of aluminum.
[Original in German] As a small child, I was healed through Christian Science when the physicians in the small East German city where my parents were then living had been unable to help me. At that time my mother, who had never heard anything of this religion, was given the address of a Christian Science practitioner in the distant city of Danzig, and my instantaneous healing resulted from her request for treatment through prayer.
Although I attended the Sunday School, during my teen years I drifted away from the teachings of Christian Science. But I now know that these teachings never really left me.
"And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God" ( Luke 17:15 ). I have often thought that when Jesus said of the lepers, "Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?" ( v.
I have experienced an awakening to a healthy, active life through Christian Science after years of severe bodily suffering. Before I knew this healing religion, as a young married woman I found myself in an almost hopeless state of health.
My first testimony was published in the Christian Science Sentinel in 1943. Since then my study and understanding of Christian Science has helped me bring up a family, and I have been upheld and strengthened through many experiences.
For nearly forty years Christian Science has been my way of life. It has lifted me out of a limited and diffident way of thinking into the sunlight of the truth that man is God's reflection, and as such can lack nothing.
Christian Science has met my every need from my earliest childhood. Convincing evidences of its power include healing of an eye infection, what appeared to be a dislocated hip, and numerous healings of injuries, including an instantaneous overcoming of pain, swelling, and discoloration following a head and eye injury during a soccer game.
I became acquainted with Christian Science in 1921 through the healing of a member of my family. Upon looking into this religion I knew immediately that I had found the "pearl of great price" ( Matt.