My first testimony appeared in the August 24, 1912, Sentinel. The healing recounted there has been permanent.
I have since been healed of poor eyesight after wearing glasses for ten years. This healing took place many years ago and has been lasting; in fact, I can see better now to thread a needle than I could when I was in my teens, and I read more than I ever did when I was young. In speaking of the danger of once again repeating the Hebrew offense of limiting God, Mrs. Eddy asks (Science and Health, p. 135), "What cannot God do?" And in "No and Yes" (p. 9) she states, "God will 'furnish a table in the wilderness' and show the power of Love."
I should also like to tell of a healing I had some years ago while attending a Sunday morning church service. I had had chilblains for years and had tried many remedies, but each year I seemed to be suffering more. On this Sunday when the Readers started the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly, my feet began to pain me. I was tempted to leave, but the thought came, "No, this is the truth, and it heals!" I kept declaring this fact, and then the tempter argued, "Yes, but you are not even listening to the service." That was true; I was too busy with the error, but the words from the Bible came to me (Matt. 5: 25), "Agree with thine adversary quickly," and I did. I said, "No, I am not listening, but the Word is going out, and we are told (Isa. 55:11), 'It shall not return unto me void.'" I sat through the service and was permanently healed.
