Testimony of Healing December 7, 1929 Issue

For a recent healing of extreme nervousness, mental depression,...

Elizabeth Wilson MacDiarmid

For a recent healing of extreme nervousness, mental depression, dread, and fear I am deeply grateful. As a result of this experience I am gaining a better understanding of God and man. I suffered from the same trouble a few years ago, but the error was not uprooted and destroyed. A loving friend, a practitioner, asked me to come and have a talk, and during our conversation I was conscious of a false sense of self, of human personality, being unveiled to me; and on each visit I became more conscious of this. Although this was clear, I seemed to be in such a state of mental apathy that I needed to be startled, and I can never be grateful enough for the rousing which followed, although it was sharp at the time.

Changes had been made in my home and I found myself very much among strangers. I was full of hate, anger, impatience, misery, sensitiveness, and such like. Another change of abode had to be made, and I found the result disappointing. I wrote to the practitioner bemoaning my dreadful position, and the reply was, "You must work out your own salvation, for it is God that worketh with you" The same post brought a letter from a friend accusing me of unfriendliness. The cup of bitterness seemed full to the brim, and I was drinking it to the dregs. It, however, turned out to be the darkest hour before the dawn. After that, as I regained confidence in God to heal me, it became apparent each day that I was finding renewed joy in reading and studying the Bible, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and other works of Mrs. Eddy, and also the Lesson-Sermons as given in the Christian Science Quarterly. The healing went on each day, and at last I became conscious that the false sense of self had fallen "at the feet of everlasting Love" (Science and Health, p. 23). This beautiful healing through divine Love has given me a new view of Life as Spirit, a clearer understanding of the Golden Rule and of how to see and love my neighbor as the reflection of God, divine Love.

For all who have helped me to know the truth and for freedom from bondage I truly thank God; and I pray that I may live this truth so as to help other to gain their freedom. I also wish to express my gratitude for The Christian Science Monitor, which did much to aid in my healing.—(Mrs.) Elizabeth Wilson MacDiarmid, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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