Testimony of Healing October 10, 1953 Issue

Although I was only about...

Helen Emerson Ritch

Although I was only about twelve years old the first time I heard the words Christian Science, they stood out in my thought as though illumined. Soon afterward I began to attend the Sunday School, and the foundation laid there has been of great value to me. Being taught that Life is God, I understood that it is eternal and that if it contained any element opposed to Life it would cease to be Life.

The understanding of God as the only Mind was a great help to me in schoolwork. While in high school I became filled with fear regarding geometry. Holding steadfastly to the thought that the one Mind, God, was infinite and the only Mind I had, I was able to master each day's lesson. At the end of the term my teacher called me to her desk and told me that I had done each day's lesson without a mistake. The practical use of Christian Science also helped me in college. Through relying on it in my daily work I was exempted from final examinations in organic chemistry at the close of the term.

I was healed through Christian Science of a goiter after an extended period of time. This condition was a great trial to me, but it made me study more deeply to prove the nothingness of matter. In working out school problems I had been able to see that they were entirely in a mental realm, but in this case the problem was presented as a physical condition. It was difficult for me to see that the error was one of belief only. Finally, I became so absorbed in the desire to be a credit to the Cause of Christian Science that I did not watch any longer for a change of material evidence, and then the healing came. One day an acquaintance who was not a Christian Scientist asked me how I had been healed. When I told him, he was amazed and exclaimed, "You are a living proof of the efficacy of Christian Science."

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