Joseph Eggleston Johnston Letters on Christian Science

JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON

LETTERS

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

The site contains some of the many, many letters containing correspondence from Mr. Joseph E. Johnston, tried and true friend to Herbert Eustace.

“In the fall of 1945 Joseph Eggleston Johnston started to dig into this deep subject. He sat down at his desk and for 12 hours began writing an article which he titled, The Negative. When finished, he showed the result of his understanding and conclusions to Mr. Eustace who was delighted that someone was seeing this subject on evil in what appeared as Mrs. Eddy’s giving. He saw Christian Science truly as a Science to be lived, and not as a belief of Science living to support an organization!

His introduction to Christian Science was at the age of sixteen, in 1908. With one foot already in the grave, Joseph Johnston was quickly healed. The doctors were stunned by the complete reversal of the claim, knowing only that this young lad was wasting away. His deeply religious family had already gathered to pay their last respects. So profound was the healing it brought his entire family of seven into the study of Christian Science. His first teaching assignment was to teach logic at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He soon was selected by the Chancellor Bob Sproull to become his assistant At Berkeley and was instrumental in finding the Westwood property for the University system which became known U.C.L.A.”

quoted by Paul W. Ambuul

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Interesting Tid-Bits

Joe’s wife was Mary, an Employee of McCall’s Magazine where she wrote many inspiring articles. Mary also appeared on TV shows and traveled over the world for McCall’s. Her top-selling book entitled “How To Clean House.”

Joe’s Uncle was Joseph Eggleston Johnston who is the well-known General in the Civil War.

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