Testimony of Healing October 14, 1972 Issue

I am humbly grateful to God

Grethe Betty Stern

I am humbly grateful to God. I have been helped physically, morally, and spiritually. Christian Science has changed my universe.

Formerly, when I was depressed, my refuge was an elaborate Latin grammar construction. Latin, with its glittering vocabulary, especially in the field of war: aggression, attack, counter-attack, hurling the missile against the enemy, intercepting the weapon, throwing it back. Why did I find it fascinating? Because I was fond of so-called witty repartees, of crushing my enemies with biting retorts. What enemies? I saw them everywhere, like Cervantes' Don Quixote making a charge on windmills which he considered as noble knights. Windmills? Fallacy.

Then Science came into my life, my whole outlook changed, gradually though, with apparent setbacks. To be meek—did it not mean to be weak? Not to retaliate ever? Not to make reprisals? Not to react?

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