Testimony of Healing June 30, 1956 Issue

When I was a young woman I...

Helen M. Taylor

When I was a young woman I spent a year away from home in a western state. Upon my return I found that my sister had become a student of Christian Science. I had heard of this religion before and was inclined to make light of it, but when I started reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and was taken to a Sunday service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, I found that it was a practical religion based on love. This fact appealed to me, and I too became a student.

Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 369), "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood." The preventive art has been more apparent in my experience, for I have had comparatively few physical problems to solve. Without the help of practitioners I have been healed quickly of colds, injured fingers, and undiagnosed pains. But I am most grateful for the great change that has taken place in my character. In a very short time, when I desired to join The Mother Church, I was healed of smoking.

I should like to tell about the solving of a physical problem so quickly that it appeared miraculous to my friends. A few years ago I drove to Mexico with a neighbor. Before we left I had heard much about certain foods that should not be eaten there and about the illness caused by eating these foods. I thought I had not taken these suggestions into my thinking, but after we had gone a day's journey into Mexico I found myself manifesting dysentery.

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