Testimony of Healing November 3, 1928 Issue

Inasmuch as I have been greatly helped by reading other...

Vernon D. Le Roy

Inasmuch as I have been greatly helped by reading other testimonies, and in gratitude for the manifold blessings which Christian Science has bestowed on me, I give the following testimony.

I became interested in Christian Science about fourteen years ago through the healing of my eyes and of a nervous breakdown. I tried almost every material method of cure before giving Christian Science a trial. To mortal sense my eyes were in a bad condition. It was impossible for me to read, and I spent many hours in the dark, as ordinary lights were very painful. The practitioner I went to see gave me a book and told me to take it home and read it. I thought this request peculiar at the time, inasmuch as I had not been able to read anything for over two years; however, I did as I was told to do. After I had read a few minutes my eyes filled with water and the reading became very difficult; but I remembered the injunction and continued to read until my eyes closed. At this time I received an influx of spiritual power, and immediately my eyes opened, and all pain, supersensitiveness, and weakness vanished.

This revelation of Truth was indeed wonderful to me, and it broke the dream of the physical senses. With this afflatus came the realization that the real man has never been born, and it is impossible for him to die. As Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 573), "We can become conscious, here and now, of a cessation of death, sorrow, and pain." After this wonderful experience, and for about two months, my thought was so uplifted and inspired I became a law unto myself, and it seemed as if I did not need over three or four hours' sleep, although I worked most of the day as a bookkeeper and would read and study until two or three o'clock in the morning. This exaltation of thought was accompanied with the peace that "passeth all understanding," and a desire to sing most of the time. Since this revelation, I have come down from the mountain top into the valley, and have had the usual problems to solve.

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