Testimony of Healing February 2, 1899 Issue

For fifteen years I suffered with affections of the eyes

N. M. Dunn

For fifteen years I suffered with affections of the eyes. Three oculists said it was a complication of difficulties. That the muscles in both eyes should be cut; that I must wear glasses the rest of my life, and for a year or more must give up the portrait work in black and white which had been my profession for twelve years; that I must lie upon my back most of the time, and never ride in a carriage, because of "spinal congestion and irritation," which, they said, was caused by overwork of the eyes.

I took none of this advice at first, bu the fear that I should have to, and the thought of failure in worldly attainment, brought upon me all that was consciously and unconsciously feared. Finally, as I worked upon portraits, they and also the faces of people, would suddenly appear the size of an apple and distorted, the next instant wonderfully beautiful and the proper size, then immediately much too large. The physicians attributed this to brain trouble. This, and my right arm becoming disabled, compelled me to give up the work and submit to an operation upon the eyes and wear glasses.

Relief, physical or mental, did not come until four years ago, when I went among Christian Scientists to gain some understanding of the Truth I believed they taught. From this time I was able to lay aside the glasses at intervals, and to work again at pictures successfully. After two weeks' treatment I was told I could continue to progress by reading Science and Health without other help. The glasses had been put by before this, and have never since been used. I have used my eyes for hours steadily, upon taxing work, so called. The disabled arm is well, as are all other physical and mental conditions from which the physicians said I could never recover.

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