About sixteen years ago I awoke one morning, got my family...

Helen Loomer Ferguson with contributions from Mary F. Thompson

About sixteen years ago I awoke one morning, got my family off to school and to work, and was preparing myself for work when I began to have symptoms of paralysis. By noon I was unable to move. I had been going through some trying business affairs and pressures at my place of employment, and I had become deeply involved in self-will and self-justification.

I contacted my parents in a distant city. They began prayer for me to help me free my thought of these errors so that I could find the peace to be free physically as well. My mother came to help care for me. She spent much time each day declaring aloud to me spiritual facts. She talked of God, our Father-Mother, and of myself as His perfect image and likeness, His spiritual reflection. Listening to records of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy gave me renewed inspiration.

One day my brother was reading to me from Science and Health from the chapter titled "Footsteps of Truth," which contains these words (p. 242): "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death." I asked him to repeat it. Then I held to that statement and repeated it until I could see that God, all-loving, knows nothing in any of His ideas that is not spiritual and loving. I knew I need not accept a false belief about myself or anyone else, but that we are all the children of God.

That was the beginning of my recovery, and in nine weeks I took my first step. The next day I held a spoon and fed myself. Four months later I returned to my place of work and have been working ever since.

Healing and regeneration are proofs of God's loving care for all His children. I have had many proofs of God's protection and of His power in overcoming and destroying friction. This has helped me in my work with others.

Words cannot express my gratitude to God, the Giver of all good, for Christ Jesus, our great Master, and for Mrs. Eddy, who provided us with the tools to demonstrate that we inherit all good.

(Mrs.) Helen Loomer Ferguson
Anaheim, California

As Mrs. Ferguson's daughter I am most happy to have witnessed this proof of God's healing power. Never once did I doubt my mother's full recovery. She had always assured me that reliance on God meets our need.

This healing, as well as many others in our family, has been an inspiration to me to choose Christian Science as a way of life. I am happy to be a member of The Mother Church and to be serving in a branch church.

(Mrs.) Mary F. Thompson

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