Testimony of Healing April 28, 1917 Issue

After passing through eleven operations, I was wonderfully...

Fred Knechtenhofer

After passing through eleven operations, I was wonderfully healed in Christian Science. It seemed as though I had all the ailments that flesh could be heir to,—female trouble, appendicitis, blood-poisoning, and kidney disease, besides an abnormal growth, which had been removed three times only to reappear in a more aggravated form.

After the last operation, which occurred over five years ago, I was taken from the hospital to my sister's home in the same town, to recuperate. The next day I heard of Christian Science through a friend and was loaned a copy of Science and Health. On opening the book I read on page 298, "Angels are pure thoughts from God," something I had longed to understand all my life. Then came the glorious message that God is not the author of sin, sickness, and death, but is Truth, Life, and Love. Such a sense of peace came over me that I felt like a new woman, and the burden that seemed to press upon me was removed, for then and there I was healed. I got out of bed and dressed myself, and in three days was home with my family. No drugs have been taken since that day. I have faithfully studied Science and Health, and through this study have been healed of a rupture which had been very annoying and painful since childhood. My parents had tried many specialists in Switzerland, and since coming to America electric treatment had been given me but without avail.

A few years ago I had the blessed opportunity of class instruction, and also was found worthy to become a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in St. Joseph, Mo. The power of Truth has been proven to me under every circumstance, and now, after several years of Christian Science experience under severe tests, I can truthfully say that it has not failed me in any hour of need. I am thankful to God, and grateful to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, that I was directed to Christian Science, which has brought peace and happiness to our family.

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