Testimony of Healing November 14, 1936 Issue

From early childhood I could never accept the idea of...

Helen Steinbrecher with contributions from George W. Steinbrecher

From early childhood I could never accept the idea of a corporeal God whom my parents asked me to worship, so as I grew up I thought I was an atheist and lived up to what was then my highest sense of right. As I worked in the business world I was perplexed about life and what it was all about.

When the two little girls in my home reached school age, I became aware that there was something vitally lacking in the method I used in rearing them. I had an earnest desire to give them the best in the way of training, so I searched all the books I possibly could find in our public library on child psychology. They took away what hope I had and left me in despair.

Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, tells us in Science and Health (p. 1) that "desire is prayer." My earnest desire or prayer was answered when an acquaintance asked us to take the children to the Christian Science church, where they teach that God is Love. We did so, and there I found the true psychology or the Science of Mind based on Truth.

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