Testimony of Healing August 23, 1924 Issue

When I began reading Christian Science literature several...

Cleo Glover

When I began reading Christian Science literature several years ago, I was suffering from defective vision. I had worn glasses for eight years, and had been forced to resort to them in order to pursue my music studies. My eyes had been weak from early childhood, but I was seventeen years old before I discovered that I could not see so well as other people. The oculist who fitted the glasses told me that my eyes were in a very bad condition; that unless I stopped using them so constantly, I might lose my sight altogether; that he hoped the glasses would arrest the trouble, but he was not sure.

Although I wore the glasses, my sight grew dimmer all the time; but when I began reading Christian Science literature, I discarded them. I found then that I could not read a note of music, could read print only at the distance of a few inches from one eye; to the other eye the page was blank. I could read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy at a perfectly normal distance, but could read nothing else. The whole world seemed wrapped in a dark gray shadow. My eyes grew worse, and I could scarcely see my way around.

In this trying period I held constantly to the fact that man's senses are spiritual, and cannot be lost or destroyed. After five days the dimness began to break. I shall never forget the wonderful moment when the break in the darkness came. I was at the piano trying to recall something from memory. The music was before me, but I could not see a note. Suddenly the whole page stood out clear, and from that time there was a steady improvement in my sight. That was nearly fifteen years ago. To-day I can read the finest print at a normal distance; indeed, it sometimes seems to me that this capacity is much above the average.

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