In Isaiah we read, "Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might." In loving obedience to this latter command I offer testimony to the efficacy of spiritual healing, revealed in Christian Science and proved by demonstration during a period of more than eight years.
In disregard of my wishes Christian Science was brought into our home by my husband as a last resort after all medical aid had failed to restore his health. But, as so many do, I opposed it only because of ignorance. At once I began reading at length in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in order to convince myself, and incidentally my husband, that Christian Science was not in harmony with the teachings of the Bible. The truth immediately began the leavening of my thought; for ere long I was led to pick up a Journal, and as I read an article stating the healing power of Christian Science, an angel spoke to me saying, If all this is true, then you no longer need those glasses you are wearing. I immediately removed them, and have never since had a pair on, often reading, writing, or doing fine needlework till late at night. For many months I had been in acute distress, and had gone from one specialist to another in search of relief from almost constant pain; but I had found none. A few times since, this difficulty has endeavored to reinstate itself, but just as surely it has been consigned to its native nothingness. This to me is proof that so-called man-made laws are not laws, for when only a child I was told I would have to wear glasses the rest of my life.
During the first few years of our study of Christian Science my thought seemed centered on the fact that it is a never failing physician in time of sickness or injury (healings of which had been not a few), not realizing that I "must strangle the serpent of sin as well as of sickness" (Science and Health, p. 569). But as I continued to read and conscientiously endeavored to put into practice what I understood, I began to see that such so-called characteristics as selfishness, with all the misery that attends it, and faultfinding, are not characteristic of the real man, only part of the "old man with his deeds," which must be "put off." A multitude of thoughts which before did not seem harmful, the light of Truth has revealed as sin.
