Testimony of Healing June 30, 1962 Issue

Christian Science came to my...

Dais Taylor

Christian Science came to my aid when I had been suffering for a long time from a critical illness which specialists had been unable to diagnose, although they had recommended that I submit to surgery if I did not want to remain in ill health the rest of my life. Help was then requested from a Christian Science practitioner. Her first words, "God is Love, and you are His perfect, beloved child," were and still are the most beautiful words I know. Like a benediction, they brought comfort and a sense of peace hitherto unknown, instantly changed and spiritualized my concept of God, ushered me into Christian Science, and gave me my first glimpse of the relationship which eternally exists between God, our tender Father-Mother, and man, His beloved child, or idea. Within three days my strength and vigor returned; I regained weight; and normal activities were resumed.

I continued to study Christian Science, but later on, at a time of great sadness in the family, self-pity and rebellious thinking brought about a return of the former symptoms. The practitioner's compassionate understanding of my human need and her firm stand for the truths of Christian Science are factors in my healing for which I am increasingly grateful.

One day, while I was in great pain, I sensed a spiritual direction to sing hymns. I resisted this divine inspiration, however, but it was insistent, and rising I went to the piano and opened the Christian Science Hymnal. At first I could only croak, but gradually gratitude for the message of the beautiful words penetrated the gloom of mortal thinking. When I sang Hymn No. 374, the last line of which says, "Rejoice, for thou art whole," the mesmeric state of thinking was completely destroyed, and healing came at once. There was no period of convalescence.

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