Since I came to know about Christian Science in 1925, it has been my only help and physician. I have been protected and have not needed to miss one day from my work in all these years. Sometimes, however, error has tried to disrupt my natural harmony and peace, and I would like to tell about such an event.

We had a summer house about 100 kilometers from Copenhagen, and on a weekend in midwinter my wife, my daughter, and I went to see how things were down there. During the night there had been a storm and snow, so I had to shovel the snow away to be able to get through the yard. The snow stuck to my feet and caused me to fall on my back against the handle of the shovel. I could not move and had to remain there until my wife and daughter came and got me into the house.

We were all Christian Scientists, so they helped me lift my thought to God and read to me. The next day, Sunday, I still could not walk, and they drove me home, where I contacted a Christian Science practitioner. The condition was very painful, and I felt as if something were broken.

At that time my work made it quite necessary for me to be in my office, and Monday morning, with the assistance of the practitioner's prayerful help, I could go out to a taxi and be driven to the office.

My manager came and saw me and said to the person I was working with: "I wish we could do something. Everyone can see that he has a hip fracture, and it is terrible to see him in that condition." But they all knew my religious attitude, so the other one said, "We cannot do anything, because for him it is only a question of faith." I was very thankful for their willingness to respect my attitude.

The work with the practitioner continued, and two sentences from our textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, were of much help (p. 385): "Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself" and (p. 228) "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God."

Mrs. Eddy also says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 5), "The healing power is Truth and Love, and these do not fail in the greatest emergencies."

The second week I could go to my work by bus, and the third week I could use my bicycle as usual. I had experienced what we see in these words of Hymn No. 412 in our Christian Science Hymnal: "The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking" and "To banish pain."

I write this because some time ago I experienced how much a testimony can mean. Many years ago when I was a teacher in our Sunday School, I was sick one Sunday morning, and it seemed I could not go to church, but with the help of the above-mentioned sentences in the textbook I received an immediate healing and was able to go. Later I testified in our church about this, and I explained exactly how it was worked out. Much more than ten years later a woman stood up in our church and told that she had had a similar problem and my testimony had come to her thought and she also had had an immediate healing. After the meeting the woman said to me, "Yes, it was your testimony that suddenly came to me."

With astonishment I then saw that a testimony given in truth and love is living and effectual, unlimited by time or space. I do not think it is possible to be thankful enough for this Science, which all of us can use.

Ove Haagensen
Valby, Denmark

In 1908, my father, who was boarding in the home of a devoted Christian Scientist, made no secret of the antagonism and scorn he felt toward this religious belief. While he was at work, a steel splinter entered his eye with great force, and he spent several weeks in a company hospital. After his release he was relieved of his job and told that he would never again see out of the eye. He stormed home and angrily confronted his landlady with this dilemma, defying her to heal him.

He often recounted how she humbly turned from her work, sat quietly with him in the parlor, and began silent, prayerful work in Christian Science. Within a few minutes sight returned to his eye, and the incessant pain stopped. "What has happened!" my father exclaimed. "You have touched the hem of his garment," was her reply. From that day forward he turned wholeheartedly to the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy. When he married my mother a few years later, she too began the study of Christian Science. I have always been grateful for having been raised in this purified atmosphere, for we children were very free of fear and the usual so-called childhood diseases and problems.

Early in my marriage, while in another city, I was seized in the night with severe abdominal pains. My husband, who was not a Christian Scientist, became alarmed and called the hotel doctor. He diagnosed the condition as acute appendicitis and said an immediate operation was necessary or I would not survive for more than four hours. By this time I had regained my composure and was praying silently to establish in thought my eternal, spiritual relationship with God. All fear was gone as I assured my husband of my safety, dismissed the kind doctor, and asked to be taken to our home, a journey of several hours. By noon the same day the intense pain had subsided, and I was able to be up and about my duties. There has never been a recurrence of this condition. I must add that I had had several bouts with this same problem during my teens, but this final stand for my spiritual selfhood ended the symptoms permanently.

Christian Science has met my every need. Some healings I have experienced are those of asthma, hay fever, and chronic severe headaches. Christian Science has also been invaluable in establishing harmonious business and personal relationships. I am deeply grateful to God for the privilege of class instruction, for serving in many branch church activities, and for the supreme privilege of raising my children in Christian Science. Through this demonstrable healing religion, which reinstates Christ Jesus' method of saving and healing mankind, I feel that I too have touched the hem of his garment.

(Mrs.) Barbara Lindsey Nassif
Cedar Rapids, Iowa