I gladly join other grateful ones in witnessing to the benefits...

Schatzmann-Damback

I gladly join other grateful ones in witnessing to the benefits which it has been my privilege to enjoy in Christian Science, with the hope that my experience may prove a blessing to some of my fellow beings. Six or seven years ago I was informed by several physicians that I had no prospect of ever regaining my health. Our family physician, a medical man of high repute, told me after a long period of treatment that investigations and researches extending over years had failed to reveal a remedy for the disease from which I was suffering Christian Science found me in this condition, and I was healed in a short time. Naturally I took great interest in what had healed me, the deep value of which I realized. I read Der Herold der Christian Science and other German Christian Science literature assiduously, in connection with the Bible, and through the study of the Lesson-Sermons the Bible appeared to me in a new light. I learned to love it, instead of laying it aside as formerly, when I failed to experience healing according to the glorious promises contained therein.

Not long after my healing, conditions presented themselves which were so subtle and insidious that I believed them harmless at first, and having no suspicions whatever, I continued with my reading. Gradually the error became apparent to me, and I saw that I must resist it; but the measure of understanding which I had gained was not sufficient to defend myself, and this led me to attend the Christian Science services in Zurich once a week, as none are held in our canton of Aargau. But the more I tried to shield myself, the more persistent the error seemed to be, and the distressing conditions which ensued caused me to become alarmed. Work in Christian Science was taken up for me in a loving way, but it all seemed to be of no avail. There was no evidence of healing, yet I received a measure of consolation which was very much needed, as I might otherwise have fallen into despair.

My journey in the wilderness lasted over a year, and my patience was sorely tried; but at a time when I least expected it, healing came, and in such a wonderful way that I could never have imagined anything like it. I knew that I was standing on holy ground, and a higher sense of peace came over me. In this moment I believed every error to be overcome, but erelong the inharmony manifested itself again, and it meant many struggles, though at times it seemed impossible for the error to touch me, till finally I experienced the joy of seeing the powerlessness of evil, as taught in Christian Science.

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