Testimony of Healing July 8, 1916 Issue

[Translated from the German]

Words can but imperfectly express my gratitude to God...

Mathilde Fischer

Words can but imperfectly express my gratitude to God for the healing through Christian Science of a serious physical difficulty, as well as for the blessings which this religion has brought me in all circumstances of life. For three years I was afflicted with a most trying bowel complaint. There seemed to be complete inactivity of the system, and I went through the same distress daily. Believing as I did that the use of medical means was the only way to counteract the trouble, I had recourse to all manner of drugs and observed many rules; but at best these efforts were attended by temporary relief only, as after a time the condition would be the same as before.

While in a state of great discouragement I first heard of Christian Science and of the wonderful facts of being as revealed and made demonstrable through its teachings. My interest was at once aroused, since I had long felt a yearning for greater clearness in religious matters and for a truer knowledge regarding the nature of God. I began to read the Herold, and thereby experienced such a spiritual uplift that I became convinced that the light of Christian Science had come to me from God in response to my innermost yearning.

Mrs. Eddy makes it clear in a wonderfully simple way that the saving power is not in the personality of Jesus, as is believed to this day by many, but that it inheres in the Christ idea, in the unity of God and man and the clear recognition of omnipresent divine Love. I hesitated at first to ask for treatment in Christian Science, as wrong material concepts, for which the material senses seemed to furnish so much evidence, time and again regained the upper hand. However, when to this trouble there was added oppression of the heart and difficulty in breathing, I decided to apply to a Christian Science practitioner for help and wrote her to that effect.

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