It is with sincere gratitude for Christian Science that I write this testimony for the periodicals, which, through the faithful workers in charge, reach us wherever we live. For a period of nearly sixty years I have been a student of Christian Science. I first heard of this wonderful Science while living in the Channel Isles, and through the reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, I was healed of the need for wearing glasses.
More recently I found that I was using only one eye. I began working prayerfully about this condition and declaring that, as Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 442), "An improved belief cannot retrograde." When I found that the other eye was also troubling me, I asked for help from a practitioner. Although I received much encouragement and the sense of fear was eradicated from my thought, I found it very difficult to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. Later I could see only large objects around me like shadows.
I saw that I must get into my treasure house and shut the door—dwell in spiritual consciousness and work out the problem alone with God. These words from Isaiah kept continually coming to my thought (Isa. 32:3): "The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken." Isaiah, when he wrote this verse, had been deploring the mesmerism from which his people suffered. They seemed to desire only matter, or materiality, and lacked spiritual insight and alertness. Many times I asked myself, "What am I seeing?" I knew that when I looked at matter, it was a case of mortal mind looking at nothing. Nothing looking at nothing!
