Testimony of Healing July 29, 1922 Issue

When I was about two years old, one of my eyes showed...

Margaret Chenery

When I was about two years old, one of my eyes showed a tendency to turn in. As I was too young to have my eyes tested for any definite permanent correction, my mother waited until I had reached the age of five, when she took me to an oculist who examined my eyes and fitted me with glasses. These, he said, I would undoubtedly have to wear all my life, on account of the nature of the particular trouble.

From that time, for eighteen years I was a complete slave to the constant use of those glasses. I never took them off until I was in bed at night; and I always put them on before I was out of bed in the morning. I could not take them off even for a moment, because of the apparent extreme weakness and double vision which made every object appear as two. As time went on, I would have my eyes examined, and each time I would be obliged to change to stronger lenses. In July, 1912, because of an unusual sense of eyestrain, I decided to go to a different oculist to see if he would agree with my own optician as to my requirements. After a thorough investigation, he told me that the glasses I was then weating were perfectly correct, and that he could not suggest any change.

The next month, while having Christian Science treatment for a stomach disorder, I was enabled to lay aside my glasses; and I have never had them on since, during the last ten years. I have no sense of strain; I can read the finest print; my vision is single; and my eyes are straight. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref. p. xi): "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation."

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