[Translation.]

Seven years ago I was invited to attend a Christian Science...

Seven years ago I was invited to attend a Christian Science meeting. It then seemed to me that it could not be worth while to sit there for one whole hour and listen to this teaching. because I had read many malicious criticisms intended to warn people against that false doctrine (as it was called); and I had believed them to be true. Therefore I did not consider it advisable to look into Christian Science. Yet God's ways are higher than our ways. and Jesus said, "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." After due consideration I decided to attend a Christian Science meeting, to see if I could not obtain help for my eldest daughter, then sixteen years of age. She could hear but very little and could not speak. She was therefore in a deaf-and-dumb institution. where she was taught to read and write.

In September, 1897, I attended an experience meeting for the first time, and with an earnest desire to seek the truth, I silently prayed, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." God granted my prayer, and He has given me what I then asked for. I attended every testimonial meeting, although I could not then understand English, for I was happy there. I still attended an evangelical church on Sundays, where I had been a member for many years. I believed I could attend both, but soon found out that I could not "put new wine into old bottles." Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Before coming to Christian Science, I had often asked myself, Where is the way? What is truth? What is life? Luther said of the Bible, "Thou holy book which God has given me, thou art ever dear to me; here is the way to true life ... here God speaks." Yet I must confess that I could not comprehend the Bible, and could not understand it as the Word of God. After having attended the Christian Science meetings several times, I bought Science and Health, and began to study that wonderful book, although it at first looked as if it were almost impossible for me to understand it. I bought a dictionary and began to translate each word. I prayed to God for light and understanding, and I have been richly blessed. I tested the little that I learned and had wonderful results. I learned that God is all-power, all-presence, all-knowledge, and His strength is mighty in the weak. I also found that Science and Health is indeed the Key to the Scriptures, and I can now truly prove what Luther said, "Here is the way to true life." Thus I put my hand to the plow and did not look behind. I took one step after another. After I had studied Christian Science for eight months I withdrew from membership in my old church. In December, 1898, I became a member of a Christian Science church in our city and I am now a member of The Mother Church in Boston. The Christian Science Sentinel, Journal, and Der Herold der Christian Science bring to me "the leaves of the tree" which is "for the healing of the nations."

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