Testimony of Healing December 23, 1922 Issue

One of my earliest recollections is of being carried from...

Roberta Lee Terry

One of my earliest recollections is of being carried from one dark room to another, and crying with pain as I was taken through the dimly lighted hall. All during my childhood and girlhood I suffered intensely from weak eyes. This brought about extreme sensitiveness to the light, interfering with my studies and causing me many unhappy hours. As a result of this condition, I was compelled to wear glasses; and did so for twenty-five years. Christian Science healed my eyes, and I was able to discard the glasses. I was happy to do this, and grateful for the healing; but the regeneration in my thinking is so wonderful, and I am so intensely grateful for the changed outlook and ideals, that a physical healing seems of less importance.

Discontent and a constant desire for change and amusement formed at one time almost my entire habit of thought. I no sooner acquired what seemed essential for my happiness than immediately it ceased to interest. Christian Science has eliminated all this, and in place thereof has grown up an understanding, at least in a degree, of right activity. Discontent has been replaced by a sense of contentment, the desire for frivolity and change has given place to a "desire to know and do the will of God," as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 11); and this has brought with it a deep sense of peace and quiet confidence which cannot be expressed in words.

Another cause for gratitude is the ever increasing reverence and love for Mary Baker Eddy which fills my heart, because of a clearer perception and appreciation of the vast import of her work to all generations. My great desire is to know and to live the truth, as taught by her.

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