Testimony of Healing September 30, 1961 Issue

I should like to express my...

Phyllis Marjorie Budd

I should like to express my thankfulness that Christian Science was presented to me. I was brought up in a loving home and attended an orthodox church and Sunday School, and I am grateful to my parents for giving me this early religious training. When I was a young woman, however, the teaching of my church failed to satisfy me. At this point Christian Science was introduced to me, and I gradually accepted its truths.

As a child I was considered delicate, and I am very grateful that the teachings of Science have helped me to overcome many fears that would seek to impair my harmony. As Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (pp. 391,392), "Fear is the fountain of sickness, and you master fear and sin through divine Mind." Before becoming a student of Science, I often suffered from severe head colds, and I am thankful to say that now the symptoms of a cold rarely appear and that when they do, they soon disappear as a result of a prayerful declaration of the truths of God and of the real man, His idea.

Some time ago I went to live with a relative who is not a Christian Scientist. On the side of his head was a growth which he believed to be due to a hereditary disease, and, after a time, I found that I had a similar one. It caused me no pain, and I tried to keep my hair over it; but one day, when I was out with the relative and his daughter, she asked me what it was, and her father said that he too had been greatly worried by it. This was the only time they mentioned it, but I realized that I must do something about it; so I prayed as we are taught in Science.

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