Testimony of Healing February 16, 1957 Issue

As a pupil in the Christian Science...

Helen D. Higbee

As a pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School I was rather disturbed whenever the Bible Lesson entitled "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" appeared in the Christian Science Quarterly. I was willing to concede the unreality of sin and disease, but death seemed to me not only very real but inevitable.

Then I lost someone very dear to me, and I was overcome by a sense of grief and separation. As I had always been taught to do, I turned for healing, comfort, and guidance to our textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Much to my dismay, I did not find the help that I had always found when turning to these books. It did not take me very long to realize that the reason I was not finding help was that I was approaching the problem with the firm conviction that death was very real.

Some time afterward, when my father passed on, evidence of spiritual growth was apparent, for I was able to see clearly the unreality of death. I reasoned that because God is Life, man cannot be separated from eternal Life for even a moment, regardless of sense testimony to the contrary. Life, being God, cannot be contained in a material body and hence cannot pass out of a material body.

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