Testimony of Healing February 11, 1922 Issue

"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was...

Louis J. Simmons

"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was placed within my reach and I began reading it just as I would have any other book, without prejudice for or against its contents. I had been wearing glasses for twenty years and could no more than distinguish a man from a woman a distance of across a street without them. I had not read the book more than half through before conditions became so that I could not read with the glasses I was wearing. I left them off intending to get new ones, as I had been told by many oculists that I could never get along without glasses. I found, however, that instead of new ones I needed no glasses nor have I needed any since, and while I am past threescore I can use my eyes in study as well as or better than some much younger. Later, trouble came and I sought help through Christian Science and had a struggle to grasp it, but I had the healing of my eyes as the proof that God was present, and when things looked the darkest that helped me to stay in the path; and in time light and help came. I cannot express what Christian Science means to me but I would not exchange what I understand of it for all the material wealth and material honors there are in this world. I have seen practically every known disease healed through the application of its teachings, including the setting of compound fractures of bones, so that I know there is nothing that God cannot or will not do for us if we follow the example of the Master and do always those things that please the Father.

To Mrs. Eddy I am very grateful for having been so pure as to be led to give us the light in the way the whole world may find the path to peace and harmony. One of the greatest demonstrations for me has been the overcoming of prejudice against Mrs. Eddy and I rejoice that I have found that the more diligently I seek and the more completely I follow her teachings the more progress I make and the better work I can do. That she was directed by God can be proved by any one who will apply her teachings to every problem that may confront him.

Louis J. Simmons, Chico, California.

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