Testimony of Healing March 18, 1911 Issue

[Translated from the German.]

When I heard of Christian Science I was in hard bondage...

Gertrud Schliephacke

When I heard of Christian Science I was in hard bondage to error, but through the faithful help of a Christian Science practitioner, and the study of the text-book, evil gradually lost its seeming power, and I now see the way in which I have to walk in order to turn away from the unreal. I know that I would never have gained the sense of freedom which I now enjoy had my belief in the reality of evil not been destroyed. The putting off of the old man did not take place all at once, but gradually. After serious struggles I saw that God rewards us for all honest striving after truth, and that temptation becomes nothingness before God's omnipresence.

Formerly I thought I was living without any aim or purpose, but today I know that, no matter what our profession or work may be, we have to attend to it for the glory of God. My heart is full of deepest gratitude to God, through whose grace I have been shown the right way and enabled to accept the truth which maketh free. The following words of Paul have often comforted me in dark hours: "This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Although I know that there is much in me that needs to be overcome, yet I rejoice beyond words in the thought that I need no more be afraid of error, as I know the unfailing source of help for every trouble.

Gertrud Schliephacke, Hannover, Germany.

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