Testimony of Healing May 27, 1933 Issue

I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...

Willie E. Johnson

I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. In 1918 I had influenza and double pneumonia, returning home from the hospital with tuberculosis. I was bedfast four years. I spent part of this time at a fresh-air camp, from which I received no benefit. It dawned on me that there was something better than all this, so I begged to be taken home; but it was the same story—many material remedies were brought into service and all failed. Things grew worse.

One night when things were worse than usual my husband called the doctor. On leaving he told a neighbor that my right lung was completely gone, and that I should not live until morning. He was never called again. The next day my husband was asked by a friend if he had ever tried Christian Science, and he said that he had never heard of it. This friend lent him a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and also gave him the name and address of a practitioner. My husband called the practitioner, and she visited me. Then the battle began. My husband was a faithful student, and is yet. I was so weak I could not read much, but as I began to gain strength I would read day and night between the severe coughing spells. Science and Health was my medicine. It and the Bible were my most intimate companions.

In about ten months I grasped the truth that made me free. On page 276 of Science and Health our Leader quotes from the Bible, " 'I am the Lord that healeth thee,' and 'I have found a ransom.' " I pondered the latter statement day and night. One night I realized that I had found a ransom and that it was Christian Science. This truth did set me free from the material beliefs that had bound me for four years. I knew that moment that I was healed. I rose next morning, dressed, and went to breakfast with the rest of the family, and continued to do so. The severe coughing ceased; it had been so bad that sleeping, eating, and talking were almost impossible.

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