Testimony of Healing August 2, 1941 Issue

I want to state some of my reasons for feeling deep...

Helena Louise Mehr

I want to state some of my reasons for feeling deep gratitude to Christian Science.

On being discharged from a tuberculosis sanitarium I was told I must rest for another year, as well as take regular treatments for from five to ten years. I fully intended to follow the doctor's instructions, but I had been home only a few months when I became very despondent, and fear completely overcame me. It seemed as though all my past sins were brought to my attention, and all that I had been taught in the church I had been attending, about God, devil, heaven, and hell, began to puzzle and frighten me. The minister, who had kindly called on me during my confinement at the sanitarium, could not answer my questions regarding predestination, and I was beginning to feel doubt on other points. Not one of six doctors could tell me what to do for mental despondency, except the last one I called on, who told me that I needed to learn what God really is, and that when I did this I would find myself much better. I prayed continually for help in some form, and always the thought came, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free;" but I did not know then that it was an angel message from divine Love.

When my relatives feared I might do something harmful to myself if I did not find a way out, one of them came to visit me from a distant city. During her visit she asked me if I would try Christian Science, and I told her I would try anything that would help me. She took me to see a practitioner, and this visit was the beginning of my release from the terror that was handling me. She showed me that I had misunderstood many Bible statements, and that my concept of God as a vengeful, glorified, and distant personality was wrong. Through great patience on her part and many hours of explanation, and much study, reading, and praying on my part, I gradually improved, and in three months made arrangements to return to my former position. I had no furthe medical treatment for my lungs after that, and have enjoyed only the best of health since taking up the study of Christian Science.

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