Testimony of Healing November 18, 1972 Issue

I was dissatisfied with the explanations of the Bible and lack...

Helen H. Haas with contributions from Nancy L. Poucher

I was dissatisfied with the explanations of the Bible and lack of practical teachings in the church I had always attended as a child. When asked to join that church, I decided that I should first find out what Christian Science offered my sister that would make her want to spend so much time studying the Bible. The availability of the Christian Science Sunday School and the loving explanations by the Sunday School teacher were there in answer to my prayer for a religion that would show me how to live. This early experience has always been an urgent reminder of the importance of giving all the assistance I could to keep open and active all the avenues Mrs. Eddy established for the dispensation of the truth. I have always been grateful for that Sunday School.

I have experienced many proofs of God's providence and ever–availability—protection from untoward conditions, accidents, contagious diseases. I was healed of the need to wear glasses after wearing them every waking moment. There has always been provision of an adequate and pleasant home. With treatment by Christian Science practitioners, the births of our four children were natural and painless. In our family we have had healings of the effects of a burst appendix, and of a broken ankle. I had a permanent healing of sick headaches when I realized the headaches were the result of my harboring resentment.

While searching for the healing thought to help one of the pupils in my Sunday School class, who was turning the other members against one of the little girls, a few words in a lecture printed in The Christian Science Monitor stood out very clearly. The thought it brought out to me was that I must love every man as a child of God—as the very expression of His being—and recognize all unlovely traits as no part of His idea, thereby denying them any identity. This made it clear that I must not accept as true any lie about my fellowmen as suggested by mortal mind, even when they believed it of themselves. Freedom from criticism is indeed a joyous step out of bondage. Then the further revelation came that whatever I believed as true of any of God's ideas I was accepting as true of myself. When this explanation was made to the Sunday School class, the error was recognized and destroyed and harmony reigned. The blessings from this unfoldment are unending. Soon after, the great blessing of Primary class instruction in Christian Science came to me.

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