Testimony of Healing February 22, 1947 Issue

I should like to express my...

Jacques Karp

I should like to express my thanks to God for Christian Science. For fifteen years I have experienced through its teachings many instances of healing, protection, and guidance. I was wonderfully guided and protected during the war years, and have in some measure realized the unreality of war, danger, destruction, hunger, fear, and death. I should like to tell of one of my experiences.

In October, 1944, I was deported by the Germans from my native country into Germany, and was liberated there by the United States Army in April, 1945. At this time there was a lack of food. There were many days when I had nothing to eat but the wild vegetable greens in the fields. One nice Sunday afternoon I went out for a walk, to turn from the oppressing material sense of things to spiritual reality. On a hill, amongst beautiful trees and flowers, I sat down to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for inspiration and guidance. There was a cemetery here, and while meditating on what I had read I suddenly saw opposite me, in the beams of the setting sun. a beautiful marble cross. On it were inscribed in big letters, in the German language, the words "Love—Power." I had always studied the textbook in the English tongue, and the sight of these words of truth in another language suddenly gave me a new understanding of the universality of God's law. The words impressed me so much that I felt the light of Love shining in my consciousness. I glimpsed the omnipotence of Love. God, the abundance of Life, and saw that with a spiritual understanding of these facts we can never lack any good thing.

Uplifted, I returned to my room and wrote a letter to the United States military government. In my letter I thanked the Allied armies for victory over the evil which had threatened the whole world. I expressed a desire to give my service, to do some good, by helping them. The next morning I personally delivered my letter to the commanding officer of the military government. He read the letter, then smiled, and told me to report for duty the following morning at eight o'clock. I realized that by obtaining this work I had also obtained the food and shelter for which I had prayed. It was a lesson to me that divine Love is an ever-present help, and as Mrs. Eddy writes (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 307)"God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies."

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