A seamstress brings healing

MAIKE BYRD, CHILDREN'S EDITOR

Nothing is quite as powerful as the transformation that happens when someone changes their outlook healing from a purely material to a spiritual approach.

In my family, it all began with a traveling seamstress. I still today remember her name. Fraulein Munster would come to my childhood home periodically to help sew outfits for my sister and brother and me. Fraulein Munster was also, as we came to find out, a Christian Scientist. Until then, I don't think anybody in the small town in Germany where I grew up had ever heard of Christian Science.

Arriving at our house one day, Fraulein Munster found my mother in great distress. She'd been ill for some time and taken many medications, but her health had only deteriorated, and she had become very weak. Her doctor couldn't help her anymore, and so she was to be taken to the hospital the following day. My mother didn't want to leave her young children and was full of fear. That's when Fraulein Munster spoke to her about the possibility of spiritual healing as described in the Bible. She told my mother about a book that explained how Jesus had healed and how people can heal today in the same way. And then she gave her a copy of the book, Wissenschaft and Gesundheit mit schlussel zur Heiligen schrift, the German translation of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by the American author Mary Baker Eddy.

This book opened a totally new, spiritual outlook on life and healing to my mother. She couldn't put it down. All through the night she read. And the next morning, to her astonishment, all symptoms of the disease had left. No hospital. No special surgical procedures. No more medications. She was completely healed. From then on, she studied this liberating Science of Christianity and shared it with her family and many other people. The healing truths of the Bible became to her "the recipe for all healing" (Science and Health, p.406).

At the beginning of 2008, the Sentinel looks back with gratitude at the many examples of transformation and spiritual healing reported in its pages over the years. As this week's issue again shows, the Christianly scientific approach to healing is still fresh, still effective today, and available to all.

WHAT I SAY UNTO YOU I SAY UNTO ALL, WATCH.
—JESUS

The Christian Science Sentinel was founded in 1898 by Mary Baker Eddy, and its mission remains the same: "to hold guard over Truth, Life, and Love." The Sentinel continues to report on the unlimited ways that the healing power and presence of the Christ activates, uplifts, and transforms the lives of everyday people around the world.

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