Testimony of Healing May 1, 1920 Issue

It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I wish to acknowledge...

Bertha Kullmer

It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I wish to acknowledge publicly what Christian Science has done for me and for our family. My attention was first called to the subject by an aunt who gave me the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I read one chapter, put it in the bookcase, and never looked at it again until two years later when my attention was once more called to the subject through hearing an evangelist preach a sermon against what he thought was Christian Science. At this time, I suffered an attack of sciatic rheumatism, and calling for the book I began to read. The first day's reading impressed me strongly with the spiritual beauty of the teaching; but I had no faith whatever in the physical healing. On the third day, however, while I was reading, a sense of infinite bliss came over me, and all physical troubles vanished into nothingness. I did not, at the time, think it was the reading of Science and Health that had healed me; but I soon discovered that broken arches from which I had suffered for years and for which I had worn heavy steel supports, were completely and perfectly healed—and I might add, they have remained so. Then I knew what had wrought the healing, and God has been my only Physician since that experience.

The first glimpse of this great truth about God and man made such a change in my thought that I felt welcomed into a new world, and every member of the family seemed to receive the benefit as well as I. I remained in this state of thought, or, as one might say, on the mountain top, for about five years, and during that time, many beautiful proofs of Truth blessed our home. My husband took up the study of Christian Science and in three weeks' time was healed of the tobacco habit of many years' standing; and a little later was given a much better position, which came to him without solicitation on his part. During the war our two sons were in military service, one in the United States Navy and the other in the air service, and in that trying period I was constantly happy in the faith and assurance of their safety and well-being under the power and protection of the Most High; and though they were in the air or on the water, I knew that "underneath are the everlasting arms." Perhaps the most beautiful part of the entire experience was the complete overcoming of any sense of separation.

Conditions seemed in every way to manifest the utmost harmony until about eight months ago, when error presented itself to me in the form of resentment, stubbornness, dislike, self-will, and other errors, which, I see now, only had the power I gave them. For many months I struggled under a cloud of darkness, and when the light finally came I felt that, like the prodigal, I had returned from a far country where God was unknown, to a world of happiness, joy, peace, and prosperity. I am grateful for the varied channels which Mrs. Eddy so wisely provided, through which this truth reaches the field. I also wish to express my gratitude for class instruction, and I always desire to remember the purity of thought with which this instruction was given us. I am striving to prove my gratitude by coming nearer to God through right thinking and right living. My greatest desire is that I may so live as to be worthy the name of Christian Scientist. (Mrs.) Bertha Kullmer, Maquoketa, Iowa.

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