Testimony of Healing July 30, 1910 Issue

I was said to have been born with what doctors and...

Ada B. Charman

I was said to have been born with what doctors and oculists called a "worn-out sight," being able to see objects a little with the left eye, and light only with the right one. At the age of six, spectacles were prescribed for me, and these had to be changed very often. Four years later my eyes were so much worse that I was sent to a specialist here in Brighton, who refused to prescribe for me, saying I was already blind; that nothing could be done for me, and it would be simply waste of money. I was then sent to a specialist in London (then considered the cleverest man of his day), and he prescribed stronger spectacles, telling my mother it was all that could be done; that it was a very serious case, and that help would not last long. I saw him again some two or three years later, and he then gave me the strongest spectacles procurable. These helped me for some two years, and then began years of the most dreadful agony. I tried very hard to use the little light that was left to me, although it cost me the most terrible pain I have ever experienced, and this went on for about ten years. I then went to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital in London, as I was told that they did very wonderful things; but it was only to be informed that they could do nothing for me. They said that, although I was the fifteen thousand one hundred and thirty-ninth out-patient, they had never had a case there to touch mine, let alone come up to it; and they diagnosed it as a case of blindness in its very worst form. I went home greatly disappointed, but set to work to learn all I possibly could do by feeling, such as the Braille system of reading and writing for the blind, cane basket-work, etc.

A year or so later a lady who had come to stay at my home in the country, asked if we had heard of Christian Science, as she thought it might help me. No notice was taken of her question at the time, but some two years after this I came to live in Brighton, and then met her again. I went to the Christian Science service, and finally commenced to take treatment. In ten days all pain had ceased, and I left off the spectacles which I had worn constantly for twenty-four years and went out alone, here in Brighton, which was a big move for me, as I had lived in the country all my life until now and had never been allowed out alone where there were busy thoroughfares. In seven weeks I was able to see objects with my right eye, but only straight ahead. I then discovered there was no side-light to this eye; but this defect was healed in one afternoon, and since then I have gradually been able to see more and more. Malformation of the eyes, crooked lens and paralysis of the nerves and muscles of the eyes,—all these discords have been absolutely healed. I can now travel to any part of London or any other place entirely alone. I have been able to teach myself, from books, to do drawn-thread work and canvas embroidery, and can do crocheting and plain needlework. I have also been able to do all my own reading, from the third week after I left off my glasses.

Words are wholly inadequate to express the gratitude I feel to God for leading me to the one who has helped me to this freedom; also to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for her loving and untiring labors for mankind in giving us this practical Christianity, Christian Science, and for all that it has done and is doing for me. I trust that this testimony will help those who are trying Christian Science healing to press on toward the freedom it has brought to me, and those who are not trying it to begin now.

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