Testimony of Healing June 6, 1925 Issue

It is with a heart overflowing with love and gratitude...

Marjorie Ligertwood

It is with a heart overflowing with love and gratitude for Christian Science that I send this testimony, with the loving desire to help some other dear person who may be struggling with a seeming load of troubles and whose progress seems slow. Six years ago Christian Science found me a mental and physical wreck. I was suffering from the bad after effects of several operations, including the taking of drugs to make me sleep. It did not seem possible to get a bit of sleep without them. My mental condition was so hopeless that oblivion was all I craved; and it was only when asleep under the influence of these drugs that I seemed to get that. I used to pray that I might not wake.

I did not like Christian Science at all at first, and was very much prejudiced against Mrs. Eddy, whom I had always heard spoken of disparagingly in my own home. I was also a devoted adherent of my own church, and did not think I could ever possibly care to worship in any other. Now I know and reverence Mrs. Eddy as a most loving and courageous woman, who taught the truth to help others, in the face of many cruel misrepresentations. I have also learned to love and enjoy the Christian Science services.

My healing seemed very slow; but I was really slowly emerging from the darkness of material sense into the light of spiritual understanding, and I can now see how my consciousness was gradually being cleared of its falsities. Among other ailments I was a great sufferer from asthma, for which I had tried many different climates and every material remedy I ever heard of, including the injection of a serum that caused me terrible suffering. After coming under Christian Science treatment I had many bad attacks, and would often get relief by applying to a practitioner for help; but my fear of them was so great that they always came back. They left me for good, however, when I thoughtfully realized that although they seemed very real to me, such distress could not possibly exist in divine consciousness, where man really lived. This healing was a great help to me and gave me a great hope of overcoming extreme lameness, the after effects of sciatica, which prevented my getting about except in a wheel chair. This latter healing came practically instantaneously. My leg was drawn up so that I could not get it down, and my hip had seemingly perished; but the drawn sinews relaxed and the flesh was restored within twenty-four hours, though for several days I did not seem able to walk without holding on to the furniture. I was like a child learning all over again. Now I can walk and run, ride and swim, without any difficulty.

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