Testimony of Healing October 29, 1904 Issue

For a long time I have been prompted to tell others...

Anna Johnson

For a long time I have been prompted to tell others what Christian Science has been to me and mine, but this testimony gives only a small part. When I stop to think, there is not a day goes by, but I wonder what I ever did without Christian Science in my home.

Just before I heard of this Science I was looking for some one to take my three little girls, as it seemed that I would not live long to care for them. It seemed very hard to leave them. That summer, four years ago, I was expecting a sister to visit me. I was sure she would be willing to take one of the children, but when I asked her she hesitated. I shall never forget the feeling I had, but I can now see that it was best for me that she did not take the child. It was only a week later that I met a Christian Scientist who afterward became a very dear friend. I was helped from the first, but I had not then the least idea what had helped me. She sent me some reading matter, and in three months I was so improved that everything seemed to be more like heaven than I had ever dared hope for.

The thought would come to me, What if one of the children should be sick. I did not then know that I should have denied that suggestion of fear, but my lesson came. One of the little girls came in from school and said, "Mamma, it hurts under my ears." There was an epidemic of mumps, and I looked, and saw a swelling under both ears. For a moment I was in great fear, as she always had everything so hard, but the next minute I called her to my side alone, and opening to the scientific statement of being (Science and Health, p. 468), read it, and tried to know that God would help us. In a short time I could see that the swelling was going down and she was soon well. Now, if any one asks her if she ever had the mumps, she says "No," very decidedly, for she never knew what it was, and I did not tell her.

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