Testimony of Healing September 11, 1915 Issue

My first acquaintance with Christian Science was about...

Peter S. Johnston

My first acquaintance with Christian Science was about sixteen years ago, when my mother was healed in a few treatments of stomach disorder and other chronic ills of ten years' standing. I then began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and other Christian Science literature, but did not take much interest in the subject. I would study a while and then lay the book aside. This went on for nearly eight years, when it came to me that I was not getting much help from my reading. I began to look for the reason, and soon found that I was trying to make Christian Science conform itself to my will, instead of permitting myself to be governed by divine Truth. There upon study began in earnest, and as own preconceptions were laid aside, I was better able to grasp the truth contained in our text—book, and benefits were received.

In 1903 I was compelled to quit work on account of malaria, and was in a very weak condition for six weeks, with no help from medical treatment. My mother finally prevailed and a Christian Science practitioner was called. She arrived in the evening, and being a friend of the family, remained that night. I had been unable for several weeks to eat any solid food, and was living on milk, which had become obnoxious to my taste. Christian Science treatment was given that night and the following morning. When dinner—time arrived I was ready with an appetite, for the fever was broken and my normal condition was not far off. I was at work again in two weeks from the time of treatment. About a years ago I was obliged to leave the office at noon on account of severe pain in my head and high fever. Finding myself unable to handle my own case, I asked my wife if she could assist me. She gave me treatment, and although I could have done my work the following day, I remained at home a day longer. No trace of this trouble has since manifested itself.

When our little girl was sixteen months old she fell against a gas—heater, burning her arm from the wrist to the elbow. Christian Science treatment was immediately taken up, and in not more than five minutes she stopped crying and was put to bed. She slept the night through as usual, and from all appearances suffered no pain. The arm was perfectly healed in a week, and not a scar could be found after two months. About two years ago my mother sprained her ankle. Being ubable to help herself, after twenty—four hours of suffering she asked for help in Christian Science. Treatment was given at five in the afternoon and again at nine in the evening, and then she retired. The following morning she said she had slept the whole night and on awaking found her foot entirely well. At another time my wife's father stepped on a nail, which ran nearly through his foot, a mark showing on the upper side. He asked for Christian Science treatment at once, and, although his fellow workers warned him of ill results to follow, he was soon as well as ever, and needless to say did not experience the bad results predicted.

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