Testimony of Healing March 15, 1924 Issue

Prejudice kept me from Christian Science for three long,...

Johanna Margaretha C. Prange

Prejudice kept me from Christian Science for three long, dark, and bitter years, though again and again I experienced the great peace and rest in my parents' house, where my mother and sister were studying it. When I was left without support for myself and two children, I turned to Science and received the calmness and peace which come with the understanding that no evil can come nigh us. Though I had left school thirteen years before, divine Love gave me the strength and intelligence to pass my examination in French and also for the position of a head teacher. This opened to me a higher and better salaried position as a Government teacher.

In 1919, when I came back to the East Indies after a three years' leave, I found that my salary as teacher was not sufficient to support us, because my boy must then go to the university. A year later, helped by the understanding that God is my intelligence, I passed an examination by which I secured the better salaried position of principal of a normal school for assistant native teachers. During all these past years material sense would keep on saying that I was not earning enough to pay for the education of my children. Through the study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I learned, however, that we should not rely on man for our supply; and many were the proofs that there is no lack in God's kingdom.

More difficult to overcome was my aversion to being a teacher. From my youth I had wished to study music; and not until now have I become reconciled to the giving up of this deep desire, which I had cherished for so long. Only since I have seen the peace, joy, and harmony due to Science experienced by the eighty-nine native girls staying in this boarding-school, can I say with all my heart, that this was the wisest path for me. The temporary building in which they live is small, and the climate warm; but after being here three months hardly any of the newcomers are ill.

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