I feel it my duty to express here my very deep gratitude...

Helene Pape

I feel it my duty to express here my very deep gratitude for the many blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science, the great value of which I am daily learning to see more and more clearly.

In the spring of 1928, friends called my attention to Christian Science after I had spent most of the time for over a year and a quarter in the hospital, or at home on a chaise longue, on account of serious knee, lung, gland, and nerve trouble and other disorders. I was in an indescribable mental state, for there were also other serious problems, and I saw no way out of them; nor did I know for what purpose I was living. Then, in our very great distress, a German Edition of The Herald of Christian Science was sent to us. Upon reading the testimonies of healing I gained new courage and hope, and wearily I made my way to a practitioner. She lovingly helped me to understand God, man, and true being. Then I set all my trust in God alone. I threw all my medicines and homeopathic remedies into the stove, became absorbed in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, attended the church services, and began to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly.

Thereupon my state of mind changed in the degree that I learned to believe and understand that God is Love, an ever-present help and protection, and that man is not material, but lives in divine Mind. In the same measure my physical condition so improved that in three months I could again do work at home. A proof of my final complete healing came in June, 1929, on a four weeks' Alpine hike with a relative, when we undertook a climb of several days with a guide and rope to a height of 3770 meters. I accomplished it with ease, in joy and gratitude for my restored health.

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