Testimony of Healing October 26, 1981 Issue

One morning I woke to find that I was seeing two...

GLADYS ROBINSON

One morning I woke to find that I was seeing two of everything. Since I wear eyeglasses, I went to see an optometrist. He informed me that my eyes had become crossed, and urged me to have a physical checkup to determine the cause. Recalling the many healings I'd had in Christian Science over the past fifty years—healings of apparent appendicitis, chronic colds, abscessed ears, a painful back injury, a skin disease, to name a few—I knew that Christian Science would heal me now. A Christian Science practitioner agreed to help me through prayer, and I was quickly healed of the double vision.

However, instead of accepting the healing as complete and rejoicing in it, I began to speculate on the cause of the trouble. As a result, I opened the door for harmful suggestions to come in.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in Retrospection and Introspection (p. 61): "Christian Science declares that sickness is a belief, a latent fear, made manifest on the body in different forms of fear or disease. This fear is formed unconsciously in the silent thought, as when you awaken from sleep and feel ill, experiencing the effect of a fear whose existence you do not realize; but if you fall asleep, actually conscious of the truth of Christian Science,—namely, that man's harmony is no more to be invaded than the rhythm of the universe,—you cannot awake in fear or suffering of any sort."

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