Testimony of Healing August 16, 1969 Issue

It was in 1958 that I felt the acute need to know more about...

Poo Kwat Tjioe

It was in 1958 that I felt the acute need to know more about God and man. The study of several religions and discussions with leaders of different denominations had left me unsatisfied. One day a friend who was preparing himself for the ministry in his church spoke to me derisively about Christian Science. To prove his point, he even loaned me some notes which included quotations from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. The statements of Mrs. Eddy gave me my first logical thought about God.

However, I did not know there was a Christian Science church in my country, and I had never met a Christian Scientist. One Sunday I accepted an invitation from a minister to attend his service. Approaching him at the conclusion of his sermon, I overheard him explain some point of it to a man whose thought, he said, was influenced by the teachings of Christian Science. I very much wished to speak to this individual, but while I was thanking the minister, he got away. Since I did not know his name or address, it was by God's guidance that I found him a few hours later in a place three kilometers out of town!

His explanations of God and man were more acceptable to me than any I had heard before, and when he showed me the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy, I wished to know where I could purchase a copy for myself. He opened a Dutch edition of The Herald of Christian Science, and we found the place, a Christian Science Society and Reading Room in Surabaya, a city eighty-nine kilometers away from the town where I lived, and First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a Christian Science practitioner in Jakarta, another city several hundred kilometers away!

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