Testimony of Healing March 25, 1905 Issue

While reading the testimonies of healing in the Sentinel,...

H. L. Johnson

While reading the testimonies of healing in the Sentinel, I remarked to my, wife that the most of them were from women, and she said, "Why don't you give your testimony?" This set me to wondering why I did not, and I soon concluded to give my experience, in the hope that some of my fellow-craftsmen may see it and be led to the truth. I am a telegrapher by profession, and two winters' work in such railroad stations as were then in use left me with a most distressing cough, which never left me entirely during the summer, and when winter approached life became a burden. This being my condition in November, 1898, after having listened to the advice of my friends and of a physician, I decided to go to California, in the hope that the climate would relieve me of my cough. One of my uncles had passed on a short time before, with what the doctors pronounced catarrhal consumption, and the fear of this dread disease hastened me in deciding to go. After having been at Riverside, Cal., for some time, and the climate having failed to effect a cure, my aunt with whom I was staying persuaded me to try Christian Science. I attended services, read Science and Health, and my aunt and grandfather, who were both Scientists, helped me in my quest for Truth until they deemed me far enough advanced to take class instruction. In looking back over my experience, I do not see any sudden demonstration of healing, but it has seemed to me as when the sun rises and gradually dispels the fogs of night, for just so have my old beliefs and fears left me. The doctor who advised me to go west told me that besides the cough I had a valvular lesion of the heart, and one limb was so deformed that I had to wear a thick cork sole on my shoe. Now my cough is entirely gone, my heart is normal, I wear a common shoe, and the slight limp in my walk will doubtless disappear in time.

My physical gain is, however, as nothing to the joy and peace of mind which have come to me, for my studies at school had made me believe that this was a godless world evolved from chaos through atomic evolution, that man was but an animal, and that when death overtook him he went out of existence forever; but now when one asks me, "If a man die, shall he live again?" I can say with absolute assurance. "I know that my redeemer liveth." and He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: "in Him we live, and move, and have our being." I know He is omnipotent. eternal Life, whom nothing can overwhelm.

H. L. Johnson, Portage, Wis.

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