Testimony of Healing May 13, 1922 Issue

This testimony is a tithe that I must bring to the storehouse,...

Alice Broun Yeager

This testimony is a tithe that I must bring to the storehouse, an obligation which I have owed for some time. Seven years ago I turned to Christian Science for help after an oculist had condemned me to blindness, from internal cataract in each eye. I was to have waited for all the light to leave me, then to have an operation on each eye. This verdict caused me to be engulfed in a wave of sickening fear, as my mother was totally blind—the result of operations. I had no faith in Christian Science, as I had heard it denounced more than praised; but it was the only hope, as I was being rapidly borne down the maddening current of materialism. I bought the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, at a reading room, and went from there to a drug store, where I procured a certain medicine to care for my physical welfare until I might get benefit from reading the book.

Thank God, I was never once tempted to take the wrapping from that bottle. I unwrapped the book first; and, as opportunity presented, I read at intervals. Within thirty-six hours after I began reading, I read on page 215: "Whatever is governed by God, is never for an instant deprived of the light, and might of intelligence and Life." What a flood of thought, of light, that sentence brought! It meant perfection,—perfect vision for me, a perfect God and a perfect image and likeness. I laid down the book, gathered up my apron, and began with the still wrapped bottle; everything of its kind in the house belonging to me and to my minor children went into that gingham apron. I took it all to the garbage pile, and there promised God to take Him for my only physician. The blessings came fast after that, and the fear of blindness was entirely gone. It took six months of patient, steadfast work to rid me of glasses, which I had worn for ten years; but now I am grateful for the slow healing. It taught me many things, more especially the value of the Lesson-Sermons.

I am grateful to the practitioners, who were always ready to help me; grateful for membership in The Mother Church, for class instruction, and for the beloved one, Mary Baker Eddy, who made all these channels possible, so that I might learn to know God.

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