It is with a heart filled with gratitude to God that I am writing this testimony. I heard of Christian Science over thirty years ago, when my mother, who had been a semi-invalid for years, had been given but a week more to live. She had help from a Christian Science practitioner and began to improve at once, and soon was in better health than she had ever been. We had her with us over twenty-one years longer.
I could see how quickly my mother received help, and each time a problem has presented itself to me I have always turned to the truth, and it has never failed. I have been healed of sick headaches, constipation, sprained ankles, burns, chicken pox, smallpox. and sorrow. Many of these healings were instantaneous.
When he was about eight years old, our son came home from school one day and said the school nurse told him he needed glasses. He was very much disturbed and seemed to think that would be the most terrible thing that could happen to him. With all my heart I wanted to help him. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 1), "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds;" and Christ Jesus declared, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" I got a copy of The Christian Science Journal and opening it at random, found just the article that met the need. I read for some time and felt greatly uplifted and calm. Our son came in from playing and was joyous and happy. About three days later he came home and said that the nurse told him he could not come to school until he had glasses. The boy's father was not interested in Christian Science and insisted that we take him to an oculist. On our way there I held to the thought that the oculist would find only God's perfect child. After testing his eyes, the oculist said, "This child does not need glasses; they would do him more harm than good." Our son took this statement to school with him; and that was the last we heard about it.
