Testimony of Healing May 21, 1932 Issue

On page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Wallace E. Howard

On page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes as the first of the Tenets of Christian Science, "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." The eleventh verse of the fifty-fifty chapter of Isaiah is rich with inspiration and helped me to make an unusual demonstration. About twenty-one years ago my right eye was badly cut with a piece of glass. It seemed at the time that the eye would be terribly disfigured and the sight lost. Under Christian Science treatment exclusively, the eye resumed its normal shape and the sight returned, although rather dimly at first.

For three years after this experience I felt something in the eye; although it did not hurt, nevertheless I felt an obstruction. One day when this feeling seemed quite pronounced, I realized suddenly very clearly that sight is spiritual discernment and that there can be no obstruction in Mind. Almost simultaneously with this realization came that illuminating passage from Isaiah to my consciousness, "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."

The next morning while at my desk I felt something on my eyelid, and to my amazement I found a piece of glass about one eighth of an inch long. This seemed remarkable to me; but the most wonderful thing followed about thirteen years later, or sixteen years after the accident. A slight swelling appeared in the corner of my eyelid, and although it was very red there was not the least bit of pain. When this swelling was largest there appeared in a Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly that same inspired passage from Isaiah. During this time I was teaching a Christian Science Sunday School class, and I told my pupils about the experience I had had thirteen years before and what an important part this passage had in my demonstration. That afternoon my wife asked to look at my eye closely, and on doing so she was amazed to notice a piece of glass breaking through. As the glass continued to break through the eyelid I had several people witness it.

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