About three years ago, my wife's attention was called...

H. F.

About three years ago, my wife's attention was called to Christian Science by a dear friend. She became so interested in it that she induced me to borrow for her from the city library here, Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health. Sometimes she would read aloud to me, but I could scarcely listen through one page at a time, for the new interpretations aroused a great commotion in my thought, yet I could not take my mind off this Science. I felt that it would affect all humanity and show us the only star of hope,—the conviction that man must become regenerate, in order to be constantly in good health; that health does not depend upon eating, drinking, and medicine, but that man must awake to a higher consciousness, to a purer love, to a better mode of thinking and acting; he must learn not to take away from his neighbor but to give. Then the question presented itself to me: "What will not man do for his health? Is he not willing to make the greatest sacrifice for it?" The answer came, "You cannot buy health with money, you have it with you; every one has it, poor and rich." This book says: Man, be better, purify thy thoughts.

What a power for the future! the social problem will be solved through this revelation, for it is the truth; thousands have testified to it. Thus I gradually grew calmer.

Through the understanding that my wife had gained, she was healed of a regularly appearing sick-headache and was very happy in this new atmosphere of thought.

Then our trial came. For years, she had suffered from abdominal weakness, had been treated by many physicians, who would sometimes relieve her suffering and now and then the trouble seemed to be entirely removed. We are very grateful to them for their kind endeavor. But the trouble soon returned and we learned that we must rely upon a higher power, else the whole beautiful structure at which we had worked faithfully, would crumble into dust. My wife fought bravely, declared there was no pain, performed hard work, and all the while used great energy and will-power, for she believed that to be the way to overcome evil, so limited was her understanding of Christian Science. Of course, her endeavors were in vain; she grew worse, and became very ill. We called for a practitioner; my wife felt the help of divine power, but at intervals suffered much, and in a few days lost so much flesh that we became alarmed.

One night she suffered agony; the slightest touch hurt her, it seemed as if her whole body were one sore. She asked me to read the ninety-first Psalm to her. This brought a few moments' peace, after that it seemed worse than before. A few minutes passed in anxiety; I fought with myself and was almost in despair, but all this time I prayed for light; I repeated the ninety-first Psalm aloud, then I declared, I realized the Love of God, and the light dawned in that moment of greatest distress. Suddenly my wife felt very much better, we felt a great calm, a peace; she fell asleep and the next morning she awoke with the consciousness of gratitude to God. Although she still suffered some slight pain, it soon disappeared, and in a few days she got up and walked about in our home; we then stopped the treatments. Since then she has had a few little battles to fight, but for the last two years she has been perfectly free from any pain.

We have had many small demonstrations in overcoming evil, physical and moral. I am constantly praying for a higher, better understanding of Truth. The result of this life of prayer brings us happy hours of a higher, a holier peace, which is not dependent upon matter, but destroys it and proves its nothingness.

The testimonies to the power of Truth which are given here in our Wednesday meetings and in discourses with our friends have often given us new courage and energy. The banner of victory, which is unfurled and held aloft before us, calls : "Follow me, God is true."

H. F., Zurich, Switzerland.

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