I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science

Walter A. Schaetzel

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science. I have much to be grateful for, having been healed physically, morally, and spiritually, protected from accidents, and relieved of intense pain instantaneously, all through the application of its teaching. I wish also to express my gratitude for the many healings experienced by the members of my family. While I am extremely grateful for the physical healings and protection I have received, I am even more grateful to Christian Science for having taught me how to become a better man.

Christian Science was first called to my attention by a sister, but it was only after repeated urging that I borrowed a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I began to read the book, but was turned from it by what was told me by one in whom I had great confidence. Some months later at my place of employment I noticed a rack on the wall which had printed upon it the words, "Free Christian Science Literature." I began to read this literature; and doing so for some time I thought, What wonderful people the contributors of the articles in this literature must be! I had a great desire to become a different, a better man, and thought, Oh, if I could only become like these people!

On page 1 of the textbook Mrs. Eddy writes: "Thoughts unspoken are not unknown to the divine Mind. Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds." Continuing to read the literature, I was much benefited. One day, when I reached for my tobacco, the following words came to me clearly, distinctly, as though a voice spoke, saying, "You are healed; you need never use tobacco again." I am at a loss for words to tell how I felt at that moment. It was a beautiful, a wonderful experience. I was instantaneously and permanently healed, as I have never since had the slightest desire for tobacco, although I had both chewed and smoked tobacco for fifteen to twenty years.

I was next healed of the necessity of wearing glasses. I had worn them for seven years, and they seemed so necessary that they were the first thing I reached for in the morning and the last I laid off at night. I next asked a practitioner for help for constipation. I had been troubled with this from boyhood. Treatment was begun, but not until the twelfth day was there a bowel movement. During these twelve days I ate heartily of everything, felt perfectly well, and had not the slightest fear. The healing was permanent.

I was told by the practitioner of a coming lecture, and I attended. It was the first Christian Science lecture I had heard and I had a real awakening. Since these, my first healings in Christian Science, members of my family and I have received many healings. My children attend a Christian Science Sunday School, and have made several demonstrations by themselves. Headaches, colds, tonsillitis, gall bladder trouble, bronchitis, chicken pox, mumps, scarlet fever, a sprained ankle, broken bones, severe cuts and burns, and many other difficulties have been healed; also, we have had many experiences of protection from accidents. A majority of these healings have been accomplished through our own understanding of and reliance on the truth as taught in Christian Science.

Certainly, we in our family have much to be grateful for in these healings and for the better understanding of God and man in His image and likeness. For membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for the many activities of the Christian Science movement, and for the privilege of serving in it, I am deeply grateful.

Walter A. Schaetzel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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