Years ago my wife was suffering from severe hemorrhaging

HANS KARBERG

Years ago my wife was suffering from severe hemorrhaging. This had gone on for weeks, and she was under the observation of three physicians. Friends told me about Christian Science and advised me to seek the help of a Christian Science practitioner, which I did immediately. After returning home from my first visit with the practitioner, I learned that the hemorrhaging had stopped. The doctors were surprised and unable to explain this change. My wife was well, healed through prayer alone.

Longing to understand better this wonderful healing method, I began to search and to seek. This involved regular attendance at the Sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Also, the Christian Science literature, translated into German, was of inestimable value to me, especially during the difficult time from 1933 to 1945. The divine truths, which I absorbed eagerly and unreservedly, protected our family from many a trouble, including starvation and the concentration camp.

One day, as the mayor of a small municipality, I was arrested and sent to prison. Although I was aware that Christian Science was prohibited in the country in which I was living, I refused to part with my copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and I carried it around with me. The most amazing thing happened—nobody confiscated it! One of my fellow prisoners, a physician who had observed me for some time, inquired, "What kind of book do you have there? You look so radiant!" I handed it to him, and from then on we both studied enthusiastically. Two other physicians also took notice of us and what we were reading. Thus the Christ message of man's true liberty as the offspring of God illumined our prison cell. Within a short time, the four of us were released.

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