Praise be to God, our all-loving, omnipotent Father, who...

Helena Lipski

Praise be to God, our all-loving, omnipotent Father, who always helps us manifestly and wonderfully out of distress, however great. It is my privilege to give my testimony of healing, and I do so with a joyful heart. At the New Year, 1913, I felt ill, and a distressing condition of the throat manifested itself, also of the face. I seemed to improve during the following week, when there was a discharge from the nose, which was diagnosed by a physician as catarrh of the frontal cavity. I followed his prescription, but the only result was dizziness and loss of appetite. I was advised to go to a specialist, who after a thorough examination stated that the upper jaw was involved. After the fourth distressing procedure, instruments being used, the bone was pierced, whereupon the physician informed me that I must immediately go to a clinic and submit to an operation. I was very much alarmed at the prospect of worse things than those I had already experienced, and refused to do this.

On my way home, while in this hopeless condition, though praying fervently to God, I met an acquaintance and told her my tale of woe. She said that I could be healed through Christian Science without having to resort to a painful operation. The afternoon of the same day found me at the home of a practitioner, who lovingly undertook to treat me, and who with untiring patience elucidated to me the subject of Christian Science, for which I am deeply grateful. In the beginning I had two very bad nights,—there was a struggle between truth and error in my consciousness,—but after that I enjoyed good sleep, and the healing went on slowly though perceptibly, until there seemed to be a standstill. I experienced a certain fear, wondering whether I was worthy of such spiritual healing; but thanks to be our all-loving Father, this fear was overcome, Truth gained the victory over the supposed evil, and I was healed in mind and body.

I have learned that God is Love, that only good proceeds from Him, and that we are subject to no other power but His, and light shines into my gloomy life. Formerly I was always ill and depressed, but now I feel neither old nor weak, and am able to walk great distances, something I had not done since childhood. I am thankful to God for Christian Science, and wish to express my gratitude for those who joy fully and with untiring zeal comply with the Master's command to preach the gospel and heal the sick. I am sincerely grateful to Mrs. Eddy, whose teachings lead us out of unrest into peace, out of darkness into light, out of error into truth, out of death into life, and which usher us into the heavenly kingdom while we are yet on earth.

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