I have been a student of Christian Science for only a short...

Martha Riva

I have been a student of Christian Science for only a short time, but I can testify to an important healing. For five years I used glasses prescribed by an oculist, who said that I was developing myopia. When I began the study of this healing religion, I learned to pray with understanding. I consulted a Christian Science practitioner, who gave me treatment and recommended that I study the definition of "eyes" in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. The first sentence reads (p. 586): "Eyes. Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental."

On the way home from a Christian Science youth meeting held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I had trouble with my vision. I took off my glasses and began to pray, affirming that God is All. I prayed until I fell asleep. When I awoke, I was amazed to find that I could see and read perfectly all the billboards we came to along the road.

I remembered what Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 452), "Right is radical." I understood that it is through radical reliance on God that we find healing. I pondered a statement (ibid., p. 167), "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." This statement not only increased my spiritual understanding but also my physical vision. From that moment I stopped using glasses, for I no longer needed them.

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