Testimonies of Healing

[Original testimony in German] FIVE years ago I suffered during the entire winter with a disease of the legs. The knees and ankles had turned very red and were badly swollen.

For twelve years my health had not been good, and at last, when all the medicine that I had constantly been taking ceased to help me, I was obliged to go to a hospital. The physicians made several examinations and X-rayed me.

Through studying and applying the teachings of Christian Science I have been healed of many discordant conditions, including chronic constipation, susceptibility to colds, weakened arches, and a seeming lack of energy and endurance. Many undesirable traits of character have also been overcome.

It has been seventeen years since I was healed by Christian Science of tuberculosis and hemorrhages of the lungs. My turning to this Science for help was inspired by a loving aunt who, by much patience and compassion, persuaded my parents to send me to a practitioner.

The Bible was very dear to me from early childhood, and I had always taken an active part in the orthodox church activities, but very often I wondered why I should be burdened with physical ailments when I was serving God to the best of my knowledge. When I was quite a young girl I had what the doctor called a ruptured intestine, causing congestion of food which would not pass off without my constantly taking some strong medicine.

I am very grateful to my mother for my early training in a Christian home; but there were many things in life that seemed so inconsistent. How could God be Love and still permit accidents, sorrow, war? Then I heard of Christian Science, and its logical and practical explanations answered all my questions, and I knew I had found the truth.

The healing of my mother, shortly before I was born, marked the advent of Christian Science in our home. It then became our religion, a fact for.

" In proportion as matter loses to human sense all entity as man, in that proportion does man become its master. " This sentence on page 369 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

Deep gratitude to God for Christian Science impels me to tell of the help it has been to me for over thirty years. Among the early healings I recall that, as I used the little I knew of this truth, fear in various forms, corns, and mumps disappeared.

I am deeply grateful for Christian Science, for membership in The Mother Church and one of its branches, for the privilege of serving this branch, for the practitioners, and for all the church activities. So many blessings have come to our home as a result of our studying the writings of our beloved Leader, together with the Bible and all the authorized literature published by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, that it is difficult to single out any one healing to tell about.