Testimony of Healing December 18, 1920 Issue

My first experience in Christian Science was the healing...

Helen T. Doan

My first experience in Christian Science was the healing of a nervous breakdown, which had come on when I was in my third year in high school. My school work was very dear to me and I feared that I could not complete it. After dragging through six months of torture, a member of my family asked me to read the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I read the first twelve pages, and never before had I found anything so logical that bore the name "Christian." In two weeks' time I was completely healed through reading the book, and was able to continue my high school course. When I read the following sentences on page 3 of Science and Health I understood why my prayers had never been answered: "Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution." Those were wonderful words to me. It meant that God's work was done. All I had to do was to prove it.

Three years from this time my mother passed away, and this was a source of great grief to us; but through the help of God and my understanding of the Christ-science I was able to help the other members of my family and to strengthen my younger sister who was just coming into the study of the truth. Over and over again this sentence from Science and Health (p. 428) came to my thought: "Life is real, and death is the illusion." This experience occurred in the spring of the year, and everywhere there was evidence of life, even in the material world; and through these symbols I realized how impossible it was for the idea "mother" to be separated from Life.

Since this time I have had many proofs of the power of Christian Science, including protection when in danger and during contagion, and have seen members of my family helped in sickness and in trouble. For all of these and many other precious experiences, I am very grateful to God and to Mrs. Eddy, who was pure enough to be able to present this truth to the world.—(Miss) Helen T. Doan, Chicago, Ill.

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