Testimony of Healing April 22, 1911 Issue

I have had many experiences of healing in Christian Science,...

Nellie L. Johnson

I have had many experiences of healing in Christian Science, some of them seeming wonderful to me and for which my gratitude has been inexpressible; but none have been so real to me and so clear as my first demonstration, perhaps because I had not known before that God really does heal the sick. I had been reading Christian Science literature only a short time, not with any thought of healing in connection with it, but because it satisfied me more than anything I had ever read, when I was given an opportunity to prove its efficiency.

While preparing the morning meal for the family I was taken suddenly ill. Thinking that if I could reach my room unaided I should be doing well, I had begun to grope blindly along when the thought occurred to me to apply the truth which I had been reading of late. Then there came to thought some Bible verses, together with the reasoning that God's child is never sick, and instantly I was healed! As I stood there in freedom from what but a moment before had seemed to affect every portion of my body, I indeed communed with God, and the proof of the discovery that God heals here and now was so unanswerable that it can never be eradicated from my consciousness.

To Mrs. Eddy I am most grateful, and although this truth has always been in existence, yet, as a brother has expressed it, "I fear I should never have been able to find it without her," as the instrument of its discovery and dissemination. I cannot conceive of what existence would be to me without this blessed understanding of God and man's relation to Him, and I am grateful many times over that I live in an age that has so far cleansed its window-panes of creeds and fears as to let the light of this spiritual concept of God, man, and the universe, as given us by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, shine through.

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