Testimony of Healing July 4, 1953 Issue

My first healing in Christian Science...

Kathryne I. Johnson

My first healing in Christian Science came through the study of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. From early childhood I had been under the care of physicians and specialists for an infection said to have been contracted from a vaccination. After I was grown a member of the family who had become interested in Christian Science gave me a copy of the textbook, and I began reading it. Soon all suffering ceased, and I was entirely healed. This took place more than fifteen years ago.

Another healing was very interesting to me because it showed that the correction of error through the realization of a divine fact brings instantaneous healing. While talking on the telephone to a friend regarding a financial problem, I became disturbed. When I hung up the telephone my back and my arms were tense with pain, and my head was aching. I examined my thinking and found that I had assumed a false sense of responsibility, which was the result of my own outlining. Turning to the Lesson-Sermon for the week in the Christian Science Quarterly, I found what I needed in these words from the textbook (p. 400): "Without divine control there is discord, manifest as sin, sickness, and death." I was instantaneously healed.

Through a series of circumstances I became the president of a corporation. Almost immediately I was persuaded to give up this position and sell my stock in the company, in which I was the only woman executive, as well as the only Christian Scientist. With the help of a faithful practitioner I was able to overcome the beliefs of injustice, disappointment, and defeat in what appeared to be a man's world, where a woman was deemed unqualified to solve complicated business problems.

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