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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

From the January 1890 issue of The Christian Science Journal


I read F. A. G.'s question of "Why? Why?" etc., in November Journal, with interest. I use glasses, and my experience is something like the one mentioned. I had a case of total blindness come to me for healing. In demonstrating in that case, I saw suddenly that to see was to enter into the light that is neither of the "sun or the moon, but the Temple whose light is the Lamb of God"; that in healing I must not mention mentally or orally seeing, or sight, but must realize the Father, the oneness with Him, the unselfish Love that goes out in divine pity to the blindness of the world, and takes no more account of the personality of self than did the Christ of the Jesus. The result was that I saw plainly for three weeks. The cares of this world, however, and the fault that Jesus reproved in Martha, "Careful about many things," has shut off my clear sight; but it comes to me in glimpses, and always when self is forgotten. To see God is sight, and all the sight or seeing there is.—

I have been reading the Series from the first number. Have been well pleased with them until No. 13. I think the word Christianity is not used by Rev. Geo. B. Day in "David and Saul," in sense that accords with the true idea attached to the word. I think the word Religions should have been used in its stead. I have been studying Science and Health for nearly two years; have demonstrated enough to know it is true. I think Christianity is Christ's own teaching.

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