Testimony of Healing October 15, 1927 Issue

I would be very thankless if I did not express at least a...

Helen Harbeck

I would be very thankless if I did not express at least a part of the gratitude I feel for the enlightenment of Christian Science. I turned to its teachings seven years ago with a desire to learn something of this wonderful truth, which I had seen demonstrated in the healing of a semi-invalid girl friend. I have had help during this time from loving practitioners, whose assistance I deeply appreciate, in the healing of colds and a tendency to tonsillitis, the locating of lost articles, as well as direction in business matters and in my writing.

Although I had no prejudice to overcome on the subject of Christian Science, and was interested to learn more, my efforts in that direction soon became desultory, in spite of the help I received, because I could not understand it, and the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, seemed unintelligible to me.

The healing that seems to have meant the most to me was an instantaneous one of nervousness, in the office of a practitioner whom I had seen for the first time. When I left her office, without having even asked for help in this particular, I realized that I was freed at last from a condition which troubled me for many years, and one which was rapidly becoming worse. I remember how amazed I was to feel so different, and how I kept saying to myself afterwards, "Why, I never had to be that way!" I had never imagined that I would ever be any different. I used to attend the services in the Christian Science church never me, and, suffering from a dread of crowds of people, I would try to sit off somewhere by myself. Then I would wonder what I would do if someone came and sat next to me, and, of course, Christian Science churches always being crowded, someone always did. It seems laughable to me now, as do the other phases I suffered of that particular ill, but it was anything but laughable to me then. With that healing came the beginning of the understanding I have of Christian Science. Since it began to enter my consciousness that God is Love, and that the various ills which confront us do not come from God but from our ignorance of Him, how illumined the mission of Jesus, as explained by the teachings of Christian Science, have become! This wonderful truth is indeed slowly but surely being revealed to me.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

There have been many quick healings in our family, and...