In deepest gratitude I send this testimony as evidence of the unfailing help that Christian Science has given me for over twenty years. Meeting Christian Scientists occasionally and noting their invariable cheerfulness and happiness, I felt that the secret must be in Christian Science, and I was eager to learn what it was. So I visited a friend interested in this Science, and she loaned me "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and thus I began the blessed study of this religion.
During my first reading of Science and Health circumstances brought the problem of sight very forcibly to my thought. For some years I had been wearing glasses for small print and fine work, especially at night, and I felt that this should not be necessary for one who was studying Christian Science. When my friend brought me the Christian Science Quarterly and showed me how to study the Lesson-Sermon, I determined to read the Lesson each day without glasses, affirming that God's child did not need material aids. I did not then understand the value and the healing efficacy of a sincere and vigorous affirmation of the truth, but nevertheless it was effective.
As I went on studying, my understanding of the truth steadily increased, and many problems came to me to be solved which seemed urgent and important, and the problem of sight was pushed gradually into the background. I did not know then, but I have since realized, that it was not a healing of bad sight that I was striving to effect, but the destruction of the material belief that increasing years brought decreasing power to see; and ultimately the victory was won. I was greatly helped during the solving of this problem by a verse in Deuteronomy (34:7) which says of Moses that when he was a hundred and twenty years old "his eye was not dim." Whenever the subject of sight occurred in the Lesson, or I came upon it in my reading of Mrs. Eddy's other works or in the Christian Science literature, I would spend a little time over the problem, and the affirmations of truth that I made must have been increasingly effective.
