Words alone are not enough to express my thanks and gratitude to our Father-Mother God for Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and for Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

It happened in January 1974, when my wife's mother came to me in her home where my family had to stay for a short period while looking for our own house. She brought to me her three-year-old granddaughter, my wife's sister's child. This girl was born dumb and deaf. My mother-in-law said that if I wished I might pray for the child so that she would be able to talk and hear.

I said straightaway to my mother-in-law that all is possible to God. I asked her, "Do you really love your granddaughter?" She said, "Yes." I asked her, "Do you really want to see how this little girl speaks and hears in the same way that God created her?" She replied, "Oh, yes!"

I just used the little knowledge that I had at that time regarding Christian Science healing. I remember that I used first of all the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation on pages 16 and 17 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy. The last lines are:

I then read Genesis 1:26, 27 and Matthew 19:13–15. I read again from Science and Health on page 582 the definition of "children." The first part of it reads: "The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love." And last, I read "the scientific statement of being" on page 468. It begins: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

When I finished prayerfully pondering these passages, I told my mother-in-law that, as she accepted God as the only healer of her granddaughter, she could know that her granddaughter speaks and hears, since God created her, and there is nothing that can stop the function of her senses, which are good and spiritual, for matter cannot speak, feel, or hear. This girl, being God's daughter, is perfect and cannot lack any of God's qualities, which are only good. I told my mother-in-law, "Your granddaughter, being the image and likeness of good, God, reflects God, and not evil. So love her more and more, since she is perfect right here and now."

As a result of this, we all in the house noticed the next morning that this little dumb and deaf girl was speaking and hearing correctly. Everybody in the house was very much surprised. I praised my Lord once more and said, "Thanks be to God!"

I have so many testimonies I cannot relate them all. I have turned to God in prayer, acknowledging His control of the atmosphere, such as heavy rain and wind, and have seen it work. I have also had solutions regarding financial, political, and social problems. Jobless people have been employed in a very short time. I am very happy to be a member of The Mother Church and to have had class instruction with a very good and experienced teacher.

Nkinzi Mako
Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire