In 1937, as the result of a stroke...

Sophie Miritz

In 1937, as the result of a stroke, my mother was in a state of physical helplessness, the sight of which was hard for me to endure. However, I did not accept this condition as fate or as imposed upon her by God; rather, I rebelled against it. It was quite clear to me that God does not send us suffering. I turned wholeheartedly to Him in prayer. My thinking was ripe for a higher understanding of God, which only Christian Science could give me, and my prayers were answered through my coming in contact with this religion.

We asked a practitioner for help for my mother. Treatment through prayer was given, and the healing of paralysis took place after a few days. Two weeks after treatment was begun, my mother—completely restored—and I attended our first service in a Church of Christ, Scientist. Referring to the increased spiritual understanding gained by the disciples of Christ Jesus after his ascension, Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 47), "The influx of light was sudden." My mother and I experienced a similar lifting up out of the desperate darkness of the situation into the peace of divine light, an overwhelming power. This power also illumined for us the dark years of the Second World War.

Christian Science has healed physical difficulties in my own experience through transforming my thinking. Among other healings were those of indigestion and a fear of drafts, which caused neuralgia and inflammation.

I should like to explain how I was healed of indigestion. The condition was chronic and was one suffered by members of our family. Soon after I learned about Christian Science, I wanted to prove the healing power of Truth for myself. So I worked prayerfully with the following statement from Science and Health (p. 283): "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action." Also I told myself that we are all actually the children of God, the one creator, and our divine inheritance, or nature, is very good, since ''God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1:31). As I pondered these truths further, I was freed from the condition.

My continued daily study of the Lesson-Sermon, provided in the Christian Science Quarterly, removed the fear that drafts could harm me, and I no longer experience ill effects from them.

I am grateful for divine grace, which pointed out to me the way in Christian Science to enable me to know God and man aright, I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, which I have the privilege of serving, and for class instruction. I am sincerely grateful for all the activities of our movement.— (Miss) Sophie Miritz, Berlin, Germany.

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