Article September 18, 1902 Issue

"And the Eyes of them that See shall not be Dim"

MYRTIE TENNEY

A flood of sweet, grateful memories comes to me as I read the above quotation, and a feeling of deep and heartfelt gratitude to God that I have been awakened, and can see even a little of the beauty of holiness, and that my ears having heard the word have hearkened.

With joy I can say with the Psalmist, "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name, . . . and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." Looking back over the past five years and recounting the innumerable blessings which Christian Science has brought to me, I wonder how I ever endured such a barren existence as was mine before I was awakened from the deep sleep of materiality, and how thankful I am that I have been permitted to do a little of the Master's work. It is such a small return for one having received so much, I have been requested to tell the readers of the Sentinel of the healing of a little girl of the claim of defective eyesight from birth.

The first of May, 1900, I went to the seashore taking with me a woman whose little daughter was to follow in a month's time. When she came, I saw a pale little girl wearing spectacles, and a great longing to tell her of her God-given freedom came over me, such compassionate love and pity, that one of His little ones should be debarred from the realization of her divine right. I said to her, "Dear, why do you wear those glasses?" She answered that she could not do without them, could not read or study, that the doctors said she was born with defective eyesight, etc. I told her that God never made imperfect eyesitght and that they were the eyes that He had given her, therefore perfect, and asked her to take off the glasses and see if they were not all right, that the best of doctors made mistakes sometimes. She laid them away and daily we studied the Sunday lessons, she reading from a fine print Bible without the slightest difficulty, as well as reading other books a good share of the time. A few months later her mother found the spectacles out of the case, and asked what had she been doing with them. She said that just for fun she had tried to read with them and could not see at all.

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