Testimony of Healing September 5, 1931 Issue

I gratefully give testimony to the healing power of Christian Science...

Laura Marion Wiseman

I gratefully give testimony to the healing power of Christian Science in the restoration of sight. I had that which eye specialists diagnosed as tubercular ulcers on the eyes. They showed me great kindness and did all they could for me for twelve years; but I continued to grow worse, my health gave way, and the pain was almost continuous. They then told me it was incurable, and that I should eventually lose my sight. Being a trained nurse, I was well grounded in the theory and practice of materia medica, and believed all they told me.

Then I was led to Christian Science. I grasped at it as a way out of fear and suffering, and began to study it earnestly. I saw that, to be healed, I should learn to know God aright. As time went on I had many proofs of this healing power, for which I was very grateful, but this particular phase of error still persisted. One night, when I was alone in my room and the furnace of affliction seemed seven times hotter than it was wont to be, I suddenly realized that God, who I had learned was infinite Love, had no knowledge of pain or distress, so I, His image and likeness, could not experience these conditions. I began to rejoice that this was true, whatever else seemed to be. Then other comforting thoughts of Truth which I had learned came to me until my thought was so filled with gratitude and rejoicing that it left no room in my consciousness for pain. I fell asleep, and woke up free.

The pain returned at different periods, as I was still fearing loss of sight. I had lost it completely in one eye, and had been seeing less every day with the other, until I could only just manage to find my way about with constant stumblings, and I could not read at all. At this point I felt impelled to visit one of the eye specialists. After examination he told me very seriously that the organism behind the eyes was almost completely destroyed. I thanked him, and came out of his consulting room so happy that I could have sung aloud, for the truth I had been seeking became clear to me then, and broke the mesmeric belief that sight had ever been in matter to be lost. This thought which Mrs. Eddy teaches came to me: "Life is not in matter" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 289); therefore sight is not in matter. Then, to rebuke the lie still further, the thought came that sight is not, and never has been, in the physical organism to be destroyed; that sight is spiritual discernment, as much a divinely mental quality as life and love are, and that all this time I had, in my real being, been reflecting perfect vision through Mind, which had never been touched by any beliefs of ulcers, inflammation, or pain. I felt a load lifted from me and kept on rejoicing, though there was no apparent change in the physical condition. Then gradually, in a few weeks, all fear and pain vanished, and I could see. This happened over two years ago.

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