Testimony of Healing February 8, 1908 Issue

I desire to express my love and gratitude to God, and...

Mollie E. Johnson

I desire to express my love and gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy, for Christian Science, and to tell some of the many blessings brought to me through this truth. It is a great comfort to know the facts about things, and to know that God never commands us to do impossible things, as we once thought, and that Christ Jesus, the Wayshower, did not do his mighty works merely to prove that he could do them, but to show us that we too could do them. Christian Science reveals man's divinely natural ability to do the works which Jesus did and to follow in his footsteps. Christian Science found me too miserable for words to express. I had become dissatisfied with everything, the world and the people in it. I felt that God must be very unjust to punish me as I felt I was being punished, and I could not help myself. I was afraid of God, afraid to live and afraid to die. Life as I then saw it was not worth the living, and I hated everybody because I was so unhappy. About this time an acquaintance of ours came back from Texas, where she had been for a year, and began to tell us about Christian Science, that it cured sick people and had cured her of lung trouble, which I knew she had had. We never expected to see her alive again, when she left to go to Texas, and here she was well. She told me that Christian Scientists did not take any medicine at all, and I thought that was nonsense, that people could not live without taking drugs, for there was seldom a day that I did not take medicine for something. However, I decided to get the book, Science and Health, to see what it said. I had a husband and two little girls, and I felt that I was responsible for the children's lives. To care for and protect them from harm was all I could do, and they were often sick.

I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the truth gradually dawned on my consciousness that good only is true; that God is our loving Father, who has loved us all the time and given us good always and never made us to be unhappy or sick. Joy filled my heart to know that God loves every one, and all sense of hatred and dissatisfaction left me. I felt that I loved God, and loved even those whom I had thought my enemies. I was and am now so grateful to God for this truth, and since then, eight years ago, the truth has been our only medicine. For six or seven years I had suffered excruciating pain from bladder trouble, which came on at intervals and would last from a week to three or four weeks at a time. I had one slight attack after I began to read Science and Health, but I declared its unreality to the best of my understanding and I have never had the pain since. I was also cured of tiredness. I used to feel tired all the time, but when I began to realize that man is spiritual spiritual and rests in action, very soon I could walk and work all day and at night I felt as if I could run a race; all the tired feeling has gone, with other ailments too numerous to mention. All these seeming troubles have been proven false and replaced with truth,—perfect health,— and we do know that the Principle of Christian Science does heal everything when we bring our false sense of self into subjection to truth. There is much more yet to be overcome and cast out by divine Principle, but to-day I am watching and waiting for a fuller sense of Love, a clearer comprehension of the allness of God, for the Christ-mind. I am deeply grateful to God, and to Mrs. Eddy, for this truth.—Mollie E. Johnson, Atlanta, Ga.

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