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[Original testimony in German]
Impelled by gratitude and a sense of duty to my suffering...
Impelled by gratitude and a sense of duty to my suffering fellow-men I wish to testify to the wonderful healing, through Christian Science, from the results of an accident which occurred in 1921.
One day in the city park our then twelve-year-old son, while on his way home from school, met a driver, whom he knew by sight, with his two-horse wagon. The boy asked if he could ride with him a part of the way. The driver gladly assented, but while the boy was climbing up to the seat the horses suddenly started. The brakes did not work, and our child fell under the wagon between the horses and the front wheels. The vehicle was loaded with several hundredweight of potatoes. One front and one rear wheel passed over the boy's knees. The driver jumped down, picked up the boy, and drove him to his home, where his mother received him. I myself was still on duty. My wife put the child to bed, and while undressing him noticed that both legs were badly bruised, also that the bones at the knee of the left leg protruded to the side.
My wife, who had been in Christian Science for about six months, commenced to work mentally, but soon felt she needed help, and asked a practitioner for treatment. When the lady arrived, the severe pain at once stopped; and on the following day the wounds closed without any material remedies having been applied. The left leg, however, remained bent, and so stiff for a few days that the boy could shift it only by using both hands. Christian Science treatment was continued assiduously, and after about a week the child was able to leave the bed. The leg, however, remained bent. We feared that out boy had become a cripple. I commenced to doubt whether it was not my duty to consult a doctor, and my wife, too, lost confidence at times. Then I decided to attend the Christian Science church services, which my wife had been attending for about six months, and there I soon gained confident faith in the perfect healing of our child.
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December 20, 1924 issue
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"The poor in spirit"
WILLIS F. GROSS
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The Christ-Star of Divine Healing
M. PAULINE SIEDOFF
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Servants of God
GEORGE H. READ
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Compassion
CHRISTINA V. FORSYTH
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Liberation
JESSIE T. CODDINGTON
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Working with and for God
MARJORIE N. BUFFUM
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A Song of Joy
ESTHER L. SAMPSON
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Will you allow me to correct a false impression with regard...
Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
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Permit me to thank you for your editorial of recent date,...
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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Mrs. Eddy devotes an entire chapter of her textbook,...
Willard J. Welch, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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In your paper of recent date I read in the article "A Serious Danger"...
Miss Marie C. Hartman, Committee on Publication for Holland,
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Your correspondent writes: "Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's...
Joseph Axtell, Committee on Publication for Somersetshire, England
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Allow me to correct a statement made by the Bishop of...
Louis Potts, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,
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Christian Science teaches belief in, and entire reliance...
Robert G. Steel, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
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"Lo, I am with you alway"
RITA BERMAN
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Ever Present Good
Albert F. Gilmore
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Scientific Demonstration of Peace
Duncan Sinclair
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"Fear not!"
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Harry M. Graber, Antoinette A. Fennema, Robert Stanley Ross, Ora M. Culver, Amelia Gentle Sheen
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Christian Science was first brought to my notice through...
George Morrish
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude to God for the many...
Catherine Louisa McCann
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Ever since a girl of twelve I had suffered periodically...
Duane Thomas Yould
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Impelled by gratitude and a sense of duty to my suffering...
Friedrich Petersen
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I am most grateful for Christian Science and for what it...
Charity Kelly Kerr
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I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Grace E. Galloway with contributions from Alfred H. Galloway
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With a heart full of gratitude to God and to our beloved...
Clara J. Simon with contributions from Louis Simon