Testimony of Healing April 30, 1955 Issue

I should like to relate a healing...

Helen Dillen Miller

I should like to relate a healing for which I am very grateful. My desire to be a member of The Mother Church and a branch church was an ambition I had never fulfilled because I smoked and participated in social drinking. I quit smoking for six months. Then I began to have a battle royal with mortal mind and its suggestions. Mortal mind won that battle, and I went back to chain smoking, still believing in a power other than God, good.

However, I continued to study Christian Science every day, knowing that I wanted that Mind to be in me "which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5). This thought from "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mrs. Eddy helped me (p. 152): "May meekness, mercy, and love dwell forever in the hearts of those who worship in this tabernacle: then will they receive the heritage that God has prepared for His people,—made ready for the pure in affection, the meek in spirit, the worshipper in truth, the follower of good."

I was ashamed of my giving in to mortal mind, but the desire for cigarettes was so great that I felt I could not be released from this material and false desire. Early one morning as I lay in bed I cried out aloud to God to deliver me from this torture. Within an instant I felt His presence. It was glorious. I felt washed and clean —cleansed of all false desire. The spiritual illumination I received at that time is difficult to put into words, but from that instant I have had no desire for tobacco.

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