I should like to bear grateful testimony to the experience...

Hans Fluckiger

I should like to bear grateful testimony to the experience which it has been my privilege to have in Christian Science. Seven years ago, following an accident, I suffered with severe inflammation of the spinal column. The physician who treated me had an X-ray picture taken and stated that the spinal column had been tubercular for some time, that it was full of abscesses, and that tuberculosis had developed because of the accident. He prescribed my taking a rest cure at a sanatorium in a high altitude, and added the remark that the cure would require a very long time.

When I had been at a sanatorium for seven months and no improvement in my physical condition could be observed, the head physician of the sanatorium proposed that I have an operation on the spinal column. Suddenly I saw how apparently hopeless was my physical condition, for I knew that such an operation would result in my becoming a cripple. In great despair I wrote to relatives about the situation confronting me. They visited me soon thereafter and brought me the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. It was my first contact with Christian Science; and I did not gain very much good at first, for I could not understand how this Science could produce healings through mental means. But as I read the Bible, the nature of this new teaching was gradually revealed to me, for I knew indeed that human agency could bring me no further relief, and that Christ must be my Saviour.

At that time I had an experience which became a revelation to me. I had been suffering for many weeks from severe dysentery, which did not yield in spite of all the doctors' treatments. I said to myself: Now, if Christian Science is what it promises to be, it can free me from this burdensome trouble. I wrote to a practitioner and asked for help, which was kindly given. The healing took place instantaneously. Great was my gratitude and likewise my hope, for I knew that I was on the right path and that the seemingly greater trouble would also yield to Truth. I asked for further help, with the result that the diseased vertebrae, which had previously been very painful when the doctors tested them, became entirely free from pain after six weeks. My healing then was rapid, and finally it was possible for me to go home.

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