Testimony of Healing May 3, 1952 Issue

Forty years ago an invitation to...

Emelie Ferguson with contributions from Helen Ferguson Hargreaves, Catherine Ferguson Brodine

Forty years ago an invitation to attend a lecture on Christian Science marked the turning point in my life. I had grown up in an atmosphere of parental domination, inharmony, and fear, and later experienced brutal domination in marriage; so that when Christian Science found me, I was in the depths of despair and poverty and was contemplating suicide. My health was failing, and I was burdened with great fear and filled with anxiety as to what would happen to my two little girls if I passed on. I was earnestly seeking God and went to the minister of my church, but his answers to my questions did not satisfy me. Often I repeated the last verse of the twenty-third Psalm, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."

The beginning of God's answer to my prayers came when I accepted an invitation to a Christian Science lecture. I noticed that people there seemed so happy, and I felt a warm hopefulness. One statement by the lecturer stood out to me, and I was comforted by it. He said in substance, "Any child can understand Christian Science because it is the truth."

I went to a Christian Science Reading Room, and the attendant there explained to me that God is good and that He gives us only peace and happiness. I shall never forget the sense of confidence and freedom which came over me through her assurance that God takes care of His children. Next I sought help of a Christian Science practitioner, and from that day my whole life changed. Encouragement was manifested in courage.

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