I will relate the healing by Christian Science of two persons of defective eyesight; the first, a youth eighteen years of age, whose parents, when he was nine years old, were advised by their family physician to have him wear glasses as a relief for nearsighledness and headaches. From that time until a little more than a year ago, the oculist, his parents, and he considered it imperative for him to use glasses constantly, changing the focus from time to time as his advancing years seemed to render it necessary. Whenever he attempted to do without glasses his headaches returned, and his eyes gave him considerable pain when reading.
A year and a half ago he entered one of the colleges of a neighboring state. A short time after he wrote his mother that his glasses needed changing, that he was unable to study by lamplight. She wrote him to come to Chicago, intending to have his eyes examined by a specialist and new glasses adjusted. The boy's mother told my wife and me of her apprehensions and fears that her boy would have to give up his studies. We suggested that she consult a Christian Science practitioner. She answered, she would leave the question for her son to decide, Christian Science or oculist. He concluded to consult the "Christian Science man first." We gave him the address of a practitioner. He called upon him, and reported his experience, and after an hour's talk he received treatment and the practitioner told him to take off his glasses. He did so, and returned to school and resumed his studies, and from that time to the present, now about a year, he has had no occasion to use glasses; nor has he had a return of headaches. This was a perfect cure from one treatment.
The other case was that of a young woman, who, on account of weakness of the eyes, had to leave school at an early age, for twenty years had been a sufferer, and for many years past could not see to read, sew, or write without great pain in her eyes and head after each attempt, even with glasses. She could not bear the sunlight except through darkened glasses, and when the lamp or gas was lighted in the evening she could only sit in a darkened part of the room, with any degree of comfort. My wife again suggested Christian Science. A difficulty here seemed to arise: her home was in a distant state, where there were no Christian Science practitioners. However, the young woman's sister consulted the same friend who, through divine Love, had cured her son. After a letter of request from the young woman to the practitioner for absent treatment, she received four weeks' treatment, when a letter was received from the young woman's mother, saying that while her daughter at times seemed better, yet whenever she removed her glasses, the removal brought on renewed pain. Her sister here, on receipt of this letter, thought it would be useless to continue the treatment.
