Testimony of Healing June 24, 1950 Issue

"Let the redeemed of the Lord...

Helen T. Smith

"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy" (Ps. 107:2). It has been many years since I first experienced this redemption, and I can no longer delay to "say so" in the way provided by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.

From childhood I had suffered from frequent attacks of tonsillitis and quinsy. Chronic laryngitis finally developed, and for two years I sought the help of throat specialists, but the condition failed to yield to medical treatment. In despair I turned to Christian Science, and in ten treatments I was permanently healed. I began an earnest study of this wonderful truth.

A short time after this healing, when spending a week end on a farm in a distant state, I was stricken with ptomaine poisoning and during the night had my first victory over illness through my own scant knowledge of Christian Science. At first I was panic-stricken, as I was on a concert tour and had an important engagement the following Monday night. To telegraph to a practitioner for help would have greatly inconvenienced my host, and the thought came, This is an opportunity to prove what I know about God, for God is here with me just as much as He is with the practitioner in Chicago. For hours I read the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, trying to apply to my case each statement of Truth. The Ninety-first Psalm was a great help, as was "the scientific statement of being." given on page 468 of Science and Health. I shall never forget the spiritual exaltation which came with the healing of all pain and illness by morning.

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