Testimony of Healing September 18, 1965 Issue

Although I had the privilege of...

Joyce B. Ferguson

Although I had the privilege of being reared in a Christian Science home, I found myself questioning and doubting Science in my early college years, I no longer studied it, and I began to smoke and drink. This continued for about five years. During that time I left college because of a lack of funds, and I was employed in a large office, doing work which I felt was unsatisfying. I was not happy with my answers to the problems of life, and I wished to find better ones. I read extensively, and in my reading I found the biographies of Mrs. Eddy. I began to appreciate her, more so than ever before.

To please my mother, a Christian Scientist, I began to attend church with her. I shall always be grateful for the patient, steadfast love shown by her during that period. Sensing my struggle, she stood silently by me in un-condemning, uninquisitive, understanding love. Years later I learned that my mother had asked a practitioner who was helping her at the time to include this problem in her work, and I gratefully acknowledge this effective help.

I began to read the Bible and also Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I didn't seem to understand much of the church services or my reading, but I had opened my thought to receive more understanding. I kept wishing that I could return to what I had been before. Then one night I read these words from Science and Health (pp.470, 471): "The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained uncharged in its eternal history."

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