Testimony of Healing March 3, 1934 Issue

About four years ago an errand took me to the office of...

Gorham H. Wood

About four years ago an errand took me to the office of an oculist whom I had known for a long time. After the errand was completed, he said to me, "You will need glasses soon." I replied that I thought not—that my vision was excellent. He handed me a page of fine print which I read aloud easily. Then he said, "Within two years you will come back for glasses." I dismissed the subject without further consideration at the time, and thought no more of it until some two years later, when my vision began to blur and trouble me to an increasing extent. I had been studying and working in Christian Science for more than twenty-five years, and I knew wherein my remedy lay. I settled down to a searching study of the healings of Christ Jesus, particularly of those relating to the eyes, in the light of our Christian Science textbook.

From the outset of this special study I found that I could read the Bible, our textbook, and the Christian Science periodicals much more easily than other printed pages, thus proving the sustaining power of Truth. I was helped greatly by what Mrs. Eddy has written on pages 486 and 487 of Science and Health: "Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are eternal. They cannot be lost." "There is more Christianity in seeing and hearing spiritually than materially. There is more Science in the perpetual exercise of the Mind-faculties than in their loss. Lost they cannot be, while Mind remains. The apprehension of this gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf centuries ago, and it will repeat the wonder." I perceived that apprehension, comprehension, understanding, were what I needed, and I prayed for them with all my heart. In answer to this prayer my vision has been restored completely, and I rejoice in one more proof of the omnipotence of God.

I am especially grateful for the wonderful foresight with which God endowed our Leader, and for its manifestation in all that we enjoy in Christian Science today. Thirty years ago I was a beneficiary of this foresight when I found a copy of our textbook in a public library, literally, in the words of Isaiah, "without money and without price." I wish to express gratitude for the instruction afforded by Christian Science, for its correction and its promise.

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