Testimony of Healing August 5, 1922 Issue

I wish to try to express a part of the gratitude I feel for...

Kathleen A. Johnston

I wish to try to express a part of the gratitude I feel for Christian Science by telling of some of the wonderful changes it has made in my life.

I am an Englishwoman by birth. When the war broke out in 1914, I was living alone in a frontier garrison town in Germany. Eighteen months later I left Germany and came to Holland, also living as a stranger in the land. I had friends on both sides in the war; and therefore the problems of loneliness, suspicion, and fear which had to be faced both in Germany and in Holland may be easily imagined.

Because I already believed that thoughts had much power for shaping good or evil events in our lives, I tried hard to overcome personal fear for my friends in England, Germany, and at the front; but I only partially succeeded in doing so, and one disaster followed close upon another, until at last "the thing which I greatly feared" came upon me, in the shape of bad news from the front. The long strain and continual unhappiness broke my health of mind and body. Gradually I became a nervous wreck, whom no one had much hope of saving, either mentally or physically.

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