Testimony of Healing May 10, 1930 Issue

In 1917, when only ten years of age, my eyesight failed...

Ivy Lawrance

In 1917, when only ten years of age, my eyesight failed me. I could no longer read the figures upon a blackboard; neither while writing could I keep to the lines laid down for me in my books. The advice of an eminent specialist was sought, and he ordered me to a school for the blind in Camberwell. Here I was taught to read and write in Braille, to do my arithmetic with leaden type, and to learn geography from raised maps. For two and a half years I was a pupil at that center, and then I was drafted to a senior school for the afflicted. Here I was able to win a scholarship for the blind, also to win a prize for writing the best Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals essay in Braille.

It was in 1922 that I first heard of Christian Science, but I did not take up the study until 1924. I borrowed the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in Braille, from a London church, and read each evening, diligently searching and analyzing each sentence and paragraph. I saw clearly that it revealed the truth. Gradually the light dawned. Each day I saw something brighter, something yet clearer, until after a year of earnest study I was pronounced normal by a specialist. From that day to this I have never consulted medical men, neither have I felt any relapse. The doctor who certified me fit, was amazed, and said that a miracle had been wrought. Two months after his declaration I left the school and was helped to find work.

How I found the light was by proving there is no darkness save ignorance. If one is ignorant of God, he is in the dark, in the absence of the light; and Christ is the light of men. I saw that sight was a faculty of Mind and could never be lost. I found, too, that light was mentioned in Genesis, there being no previous record of solar beams. I then saw that this light was the light of Truth. God being everywhere, then Truth was everywhere; hence all was light. All this I analyzed, and a little trouble brought me a great reward.

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