Testimony of Healing October 15, 1927 Issue

When I was a college freshman I had my first direct contact...

Helen Ludlow Jacoby

When I was a college freshman I had my first direct contact with Christian Science through the healing of my roommate of a severe attack of influenza. This healing, which took place in an hour after a practitioner's help was asked, so impressed me that I at once began to study the Lesson-Sermons regularly. At first I had no thought of healing for myself, as my only difficulty seemed to be a condition which had been chronic since I was a child, and which I had come to accept as inevitable. This condition was healed shortly after I began my study of Christian Science, and many other things needing correction were uncovered. I made an earnest effort to drop wrong thinking and erroneous traits of character, and am grateful for the progress which has been made—for the healing of a quick temper, and of a strong tendency toward moodiness, and for the overcoming of fear in many directions.

Since my first healing in Christian Science, my path has led through deep waters and many fiery trails, but Love has never failed to meet all my needs. Unfailingly those things really needful have been provided. Shortly after my marriage a distressing financial condition arose, and many times there was not enough money in the family purse to buy food for the day; yet invariably we were fed and clothed abundantly. We attended church services when it took all that we had to pay our carfare, and always more was forthcoming before we had need for it. During this period we were establishing our home on the Rock, Truth, under conditions which mortal mind would say made it impossible to have a happy home; yet it was our privilege to enjoy as happy a home as is imaginable.

Later, when this home and the companionship it included were suddenly wiped out, human sense would have overwhelmed me with grief and despair; but through all the darkness and sorrow I knew that, assuredly, no good could be lost, or the unity, the love, the joy either, and that I must and could prove this by getting a selfish, false sense of self out of the way. There were many hours of suffering and grief, many struggles in overcoming. I am more grateful than I can tell for the progress which these experiences have forced upon me, and for the new joy and peace and quiet which are now my abiding place.

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