About two years ago, I was attacked with a disease...

M. Mayr

About two years ago, I was attacked with a disease which seemed to threaten physical and mental destruction. I went to a physician and submitted myself to his treatment. His statements awakened new hope, and after six weeks' treatment I believed myself well. At his request, I discontinued taking the medicine and soon a relapse followed. I went back to the same physician and was under his care for several weeks, until finally the disease reached a critical stage. All change with different physicians proved ineffective. Each one thought he discovered another disease, until finally I was in the hands of a hypnotist, who declared my whole system to be diseased. After having treatment for a considerable length of time, the result was hopelessness and a worse condition than before. I suffered from nervousness and several organic diseases. After the physicians had failed to help me, I turned to patent medicines, but without avail.

Then came the light of Truth. Through a friend who was healed in Christian Science I heard of this wonderful healing power, but there was a gulf between me and any religious teaching which I thought could not be spanned. In my childhood I had been raised in an orthodox church. I had been taught that God is the creator of all good, yet that sickness, poverty, anxiety, and sorrow were permitted by God, and that man has no right to protest against them. All this made me an opponent of the church. I felt confused by such contradictions and kept aloof from all religious views. This was my state of thought when I sent for a Christian Scientist for the first time. In answer to his question, whether I believed in Christian Science, I told him that I would rather wait for results and that after a scientific proof no blind faith would be needed. I asked for treatment, and improvement began immediately, with the result that I am now perfectly well.

I am a living proof of the truth of Christian Science. Neither years of preaching, nor the strongest material influences could have induced me to give up my views, but the understanding of God, the light of Truth and Love, as well as the signs following, have awakened in me a desire which urges me on into the realm of Mind,—the divine universe which God has prepared for all; and today my name is on the declaration of independence, spiritual freedom.

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