With great joy I should like to express my gratitude for...

Minna Walter-Kaufmann

With great joy I should like to express my gratitude for the help which I have received in Christian Science. Although I have known of it for only a short time, it has been a real blessing to me.

Ever since my school days an inexpressible sense of fear had bothered me, and later melancholy imprisoned me. These maladies were my constant companions. I was often so full of fear that my whole body shook, and there were days when I wept from morning till night, and saw things only from the darkest side. When I was alone in the house, I always locked myself in, and when it grew dark I did not dare to go out again; in fact I did not dare to go even into the attic or the cellar. When my husband had to go out at night, I looked under all the beds and in the wardrobe closet before I went to bed; then placed a chair or a small table against the locked door and thought that I should be able to sleep better, but that was not the case. Often I had such bad dreams that I woke up with a start and felt as if menaced by thieves and robbers. So I would sit there in bed for hours and at the least sound would begin to tremble and hardly dared to breathe. In the morning, instead of being fresh and cheerful, I would be weary and depressed.

But "man's extremity is God's opportunity." This saying was proved true in my case. At the time, my mother had already been studying Christian Science. She told me about it and gave me the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and some German editions of the Herald with wonderful testimonies of healing. These made a deep impression on me and I felt that this was the way for me also to become free. I thought to myself, God will not heal some men only and let others suffer. When I attended a service for the first time and we sang the song, "Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish," in which the closing words are, "Earth has no sorrow but Love can remove," I felt freer at once, and a deep sense of peace came over me. A few days later I visited a practitioner, who kindly explained things to me and made it clear to me that real life is spiritual and not material, and that what I thought I was suffering from was only a false belief. I had treatments, and through the reading of the textbook I gained a constantly better understanding of Truth, an understanding which showed me that God, Love, directs. When I read the passage on page 410 of the textbook which quotes from the Bible, "'There is no fear in Love, but perfect Love casteth out fear,'" I realized the unreality of the false belief. Treatment was continued and the fear and melancholy disappeared, and at the same time pain in my back and in the appendix left me. Through the faithful help of the practitioner I found the light, and my condition improved so fast that I was soon healed.

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