It was over seventeen years ago that Christian Science...

Marta Kraftmeler

It was over seventeen years ago that Christian Science came into my life and brought about its complete transformation. In fact it often seems to me as if I had been living only since then, and at times I hardly feel as if I could have grown older, although I had gone through many severe experiences.

During childhood I was always more or less a sufferer, although everything was done that lay within the power of the kind physicians who attended me; but all their efforts were in vain. When I grew into young girlhood, conditions took a more serious turn, and I suffered almost constantly. I was advised to undergo an operation, but to this I would not consent, as I had lost faith in the efficacy of materia medica, if I had ever had any, for I remember having had arguments with physicians in former years regarding the inefficiency of their methods. The human mind, however, is not strong enough to maintain its convictions when it knows of nothing better, and so it was in my own case. Owing to constant persuasion, to the fact that my suffering was gradually growing more severe, and to increasing weakness, I finally yielded. I was in England at that time, and the operation was to be performed at the home of relatives, but I felt I would not live through it. Although I did not wish to displease my relatives, whose advice I had accepted and who had arranged for the operation, yet when on the day previous to it I found myself feeling a little better, without telling them of my purpose I went to see the physician and canceled the arrangements for the operation.

Although I blamed myself very much for my fear at the time and called myself a coward, I can now see that after all it was divine Love that saved me from the surgeon's knife and from other troubles; for very soon afterward Christian Science came into my life and met all my needs. While reading our wonderful text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, I felt that I had been called out of darkness into a wonderful light, and my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy was greater than I could describe in words, for her teachings have revealed to me a God whom I can trust and to whom I can pray, and before whom I can lay all my difficulties, even as I would turn to a loving and powerful father for help and counsel.

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