Testimony of Healing December 1, 1934 Issue

I am very grateful to be able to testify to the power of...

Nora Earle

I am very grateful to be able to testify to the power of Christian Science as I have experienced it. One of my first healings, after beginning the study of Christian Science, was that of bad eyesight, from which I had always suffered and because of which I had worn glasses for all fine work and reading. In my childhood specialists had said that I should not use my eyes for any fine work, but in spite of this I took up drafting as a profession. Shortly after beginning to study Christian Science I took off my glasses and did all my work without them. This demonstration, which came through the loving help of a Christian Science practitioner, caused a specialist great astonishment when he examined my eyes later.

Another demonstration was in connection with an examination I wished to pass to qualify as a certified draftsman. I felt that this was beyond my achievement, but I got the required study books and without any help except the understanding gained from Christian Science, namely, that I, as Mind's reflection, was intelligent, efficient, enduring, successful, I gained my objective. This certificate was not held at that time by any other woman in New Zealand. The plan work necessary for the examination was very fine and of a high standard, but my eyes did not suffer in the least in consequence. I think I studied my Christian Science textbook as much as my examination books at the time, and to this study I attribute my success. Bad headaches, due to a belief of eyestrain, passed away after I took up the study of this Science.

For a number of years my progress increased in every direction. I reaped wonderful blessings, financially, in church work, in Sunday school work, and in social work in the local prison. Then came what appeared to be lean years, when all my good seemed reversed. Beliefs of overwork, illness, loss of position, and family trouble all had to be destroyed. Glasses seemed necessary to me again. When there is suffering there are always tares to be burned; when tere are tares to be burned there is also a harvest to be reaped. Sickness, fear, resentment, hatred, and despair had all to be rooted out and burned, and patience, faith, meekness, obedience, and love to take their place. I worked my way out of this wilderness with bleeding footsteps until at last a light shone on me: There is no need to suffer for anything but sin. "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." This thought stayed with me for days until it lifted me out of the wilderness. I found that this barren period was really the fruitful one, and the harvest to be reaped the real grain, far more abundant than I had gathered before. There can be no reversal of good, but only a purifying that greater abundance may come.

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