Through the encouraging testimonies of healing in the...

Emmi Ludwig

Through the encouraging testimonies of healing in the Herold I have received such strength and comfort that I, also, wish to express my deepest gratitude. I have known and loved Christian Science for about ten years. Whenever I think back over my earlier life, I can say in grateful joy that all that I had unconsciously longed for has become mine through this Science. To be sure, I had never been seriously ill, but as a child I had a great fear that I might be and should have to call a doctor. It was the bugbear of my existence. Then came Christian Science and freed me of this burden. It also freed me lovingly of faults of character, of indecision and idleness, and led me to God, good, in whom I find all that I need.

I always think of my first experience with great gratitude. In the summer of 1922, when with a family in a mountain resort in Bavaria, one day I was seized with a violent toothache and afterward had a very swollen face. We used all kinds of material remedies, but the swelling remained. Gradually I got discouraged, for I was very much hindered in my work. One afternoon I remembered a Herold which had once been lent me. For the first time I read it with great interest and soon recognized that God lovingly governs all. If He is all Life, then He is also my Life, I thought; and if God is for me, then nothing can be against me. Uplifted and comforted I went back to my work, in which I was exposed to a strong draft. Yet I had no further fear; for I knew that God was indeed my protection. Then suddenly I looked in a mirror and saw that my face, which had been so disfigured, was quite normal. Even today I can feel the exultant joy which filled me then.

In the autumn I returned home and began the study of Christian Science in earnest. Shortly after Christmas severe pains took possession of me, so that I could walk only with great difficulty and on many days had to remain lying down as if paralyzed. My family kept wanting to call a doctor, but I refused firmly, for I knew who is my true physician. I read and worked in Science as well as I knew how. It was not always easy to withstand the testimony of the erring senses; yet I was absolutely sure that I should solve my problem. And the reward did not fail. Suddenly one morning I felt such a sense of strength and freedom that I was able not only to go down the stairs, but to run down. From that moment the evil was gone.

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