I should like to give thanks for the many blessings which...

Hertha S. Fenner

I should like to give thanks for the many blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science, though there are too many to mention them all here.

In 1930, I was led to this Science. I had been suffering for over seven years and had sought aid from many doctors and specialists, but none of them was able to give the illness a name or to help me. As their final word they told me that perhaps a change of climate might help. We therefore sold our possessions in Brazil and traveled to Argentina. This was my family's last hope of my regaining my health. The change of climate did not help me, and we were all very much discouraged. Here, just as in Brazil, I had severe pains in my legs, headaches, almost daily cramps in my stomach, and an abdominal trouble.

On our journey from Brazil to Argentina we were truly divinely guided, for we met a former acquaintance, a gentleman who had meanwhile become a Christian Scientist. Through him we received our first knowledge of Christian Science. He also gave us the address of a practitioner in Brazil, to whom I wrote, asking for help. At the time when, according to my calculation, the letter must have reached her, the healing also came. Only the cramps in the stomach kept recurring, but even they did not come so often or so severely. Later, when I had a very severe attack, a Christian Scientist, living in the house with us, came to my bedside and said to me, "God is here, and where God is, there can be no pain!" Ten minutes later I had gone to sleep. Four years have passed since then, and I have never again had an attack of cramps in the stomach. When I had a heavy loss of blood, this same Christian Scientist gave me help, and said to my mother, "Your daughter's life does not depend on blood, for God is our Life." I fell asleep immediately and slept till the next morning. I was then able to get up, and on the following day to attend the church service. That afternoon I was able to take an hour's walk without any feeling of weakness. Also through the loving help of a practitioner I was freed in three days from the need of wearing glasses.

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