With gratitude and rejoicing, I give this testimony of healing accomplished through reading the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Science and Health was lent to me by a friend when I was seeking a higher understanding of God and Church. I wanted to know how to pray aright. Being greatly troubled at the time, for church meant very much to me, I had resigned membership in an orthodox church to work out the problem.
Opening Science and Health to page 1, I read: "Thoughts unspoken are not unknown to the divine Mind. Desire is prayer." I had received my answer, and turning to page 3 I read, "To understand God is the work of eternity, and demands absolute consecration of thought, energy, and desire." I knew I had found what I had been seeking for many years, and earnestly took up the study of Christian Science.
Leaving Science and Health always open, I used to go to my bedroom for a few moments and read at every opportunity. At that time I was using glasses for reading and sewing and found them very limiting, for they were never to be found when I wanted to read this wonderful book. I commenced reading the textbook without glasses, although at the time I did not realize it. But one day my thought awakened to know that I did not need glasses any more, that I had been healed of this belief through reading the textbook of Christian Science.
