Testimony of Healing December 30, 1961 Issue

After the Second World War...

Kaoru Sakai

After the Second World War, I entered an English institute in Kyoto, and on the recommendation of a teacher, many of the students in my class started to attend Christian Science Sunday services in order to promote our study of the English language.

I remember that in those days I often felt ill and weak, and my daily life was not happy. Knowing nothing about Christian Science, or its healing power, I started my study of it, attending the services regularly. The textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, revealed truths which I had long sought and grasped but vaguely. I was inspired by the textbook's unprecedented explanation of error. On page 472 we read, "Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter."

Eight months after I began to study Science I was healed of what I had been told was chronic appendicitis by prayerfully repeating and thoughtfully pondering the first sentence of the Lord's Prayer and Mrs. Eddy's spiritual interpretation of it (ibid., p. 16):

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