The blessings obtained through the study of Christian Science are innumerable, not only to the student but to all those with whom he comes in contact. This has been proved true in my own family.
One of the first blessings received was the healing of our son, whose eyes had been afflicted with oblique astigmatism from birth. He was not yet six months of age when friends would say to me, "What is the matter with your baby's eyes?" He was a delicate child, so much so that friends told me we would never raise him. We started him to school at the age of six, but it soon became apparent to the teacher that something was wrong, for he could not keep up with the class. We began to get glasses for him, but there was no optician in the small town in which we resided, so we had to depend upon traveling or visiting eye specialists. One of these would fit his eyes with a pair of glasses, and the next one insist that his eyes ought to be treated with medicine, so the child suffered "many things of many physicians," but was none the better, but rather grew worse, so that we, discouraged, ceased to trouble him. He could not apply himself to study without its bringing tears from the eye-strain, and perseverance in application would inevitably bring on severe headaches with burning fever. We became quite hopeless of his ever obtaining an education.
When he was twelve years of age we moved to Colorado. The change seemed to do him good for a while, but it was not long before his eyes grew worse than ever, so that he would open and close them as rapidly as any one could count, rubbing them and saying he could not see. We took him to the State Sanitarium. The oculist there examined him and declined to take the case, saying it was a case for a specialist, and gave us the address of the specialist he considered the best in Denver. We took him there and the doctor treated his eyes four days before he fitted him with glasses. He said it was a wonder he was not blind, going without glasses. We came on to Portland, but it was the same thing over again. So soon as he started to school he was unable to study, because application brought on the old headaches.
