I shall ever be grateful to God and to Mrs. Eddy for....

Karl R. Peters

I shall ever be grateful to God and to Mrs. Eddy for Christian Science. I owe my life to the fact that an understanding of God, as revealed by Christian Science, brought about the fulfillment of one of the promises with which the Bible is replete: "The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow."

My mother, after a second operation, had been sent home to pass on among relatives, because the doctors had done all they could for her. An intimate friend, a Christian Science practitioner, asked permission to treat her. With the doctor's verdict and the needs of four small children in view, the relatives were willing to consent to anything that held out any hope of saving her. Within a few weeks my mother was healed by Christian Science and was again active in a happy home. This healing was permanent.

Ten years after my mother's healing, our neighbor, a physician, told my parents that the lump on the side of my neck was a tubercular abscess, and that it had reached the stage where it needed attention. According to medical science, operations of this type were seldom successful, but it was believed that if the growth were not removed it would break internally and death would be inevitable. My parents told me of doctor's voluntary information relative to my neck, but also told me I had reached an age where it was necessary for me to make my own decision. With several years of Sunday school training and thinking of my mother's healing, I asked for Christian Science treatment. My healing was slow, but one morning I awoke to find that the abscess had opened during the night and drained.

Some time after this, the physician, still interested, asked if he might examine my neck, for he saw that the lump had been removed. Greatly surprised he remarked: "No human hand had any part in removing the growth. According to medical science, after such an operation it is necessary to sew the edges together." In my case the edges had turned in and the flesh grown together.

I am humbly grateful for all the blessings I have received in Christian Science, for class instruction, for an active part in church work, for The Christian Science Publishing Society and all its activities; and I am especially grateful for the loving practitioners who stand ready and willing to help when the call comes.

Karl R. Peters, Oakland, California.

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