Testimony of Healing January 19, 1918 Issue

About four years ago I heard for the first time of Christian Science

I. Gertsch

About four years ago I heard for the first time of Christian Science. From a sense of duty rather than out of interest I read the Herold which was given to me at the time. Soon, however, I came across a statement which made me keenly interested. It read, "You need believe only what you can prove for yourself." No blind belief, therefore, was asked. I then studied all the Christian Science literature available in the German language, and while doing so a weakness of the eyes of many years' standing disappeared. Previously I was never able to read in artificial light, but now I read through half the night. The many references to the English works convinced me that the German translation constituted but a small part of the Christian Science literature, and I thereupon began to translate for myself one after another of Mrs. Eddy's works. At first things went very slowly, for I had to look up in the dictionary hundreds of words. I now possess all the books by our Leader and subscribe to all the Christian Science periodicals and read them all.

I was recompensed for my efforts in still another manner. A skin disease which was considered hereditary and incurable disappeared, never to return. Many more or less serious illnesses and inharmonies were overcome through Christian Science. One particular case I should like to mention. A short time ago my eldest son had a severe attack of appendicitis. None of the family asked for a doctor, although the symptoms were alarming. I myself was strengthened by the encouraging thought that however small my understanding of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God might be, it was sufficient to solve my problem; and this proved to be the case.

After three days the boy was out of bed, but he seemed so very thin, pale, and weak that I had to support him. This condition lasted until the following day. A conversation about food made me look into this question more closely, and when I spoke with the patient about there being no record in the Bible of a long convalescence, his appearance changed and the weakness disappeared so quickly that on the following day he was able to go out on his bicycle, and two days after that he was doing manual work.

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