Testimony of Healing September 15, 1934 Issue

"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great...

MARY L. ROTHERY

"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light." This prophecy of Isaiah has been literally fulfilled in my experience. From 1925 to 1929 I suffered from a very distressing form of eye trouble. I had constant headaches, which were especially severe at night, so that I never had a good night's rest. All light hurt my eyes, and for nearly two years I wore two pairs of dark glasses and a shade hat, even in the house. I was teaching, and it was necessary for me to earn my living. In the endeavor to conserve what energy I had for my work, I gave up everything else, and when not actually at work, I sat idle in a darkened room. I consulted ten doctors; and I shall ever be grateful to some of them for their patient, painstaking efforts to find a cause and a remedy for my troubles. Among them were eye, ear, nose, throat, and nerve specialists — the most skillful to be found in Shanghai, London, Liverpool, and Paris. Most of them were unable to diagnose the case at all. I followed various treatments prescribed; I gave my eyes complete rest for seven months; once I spent a week entirely in the dark. I declined to submit to an operation on the nose, since the surgeon warned me that it might make things better or much worse; I did allow another surgeon to perform a very delicate operation on both eyes, but the eyes became steadily worse. The end of 1928 found me in a state of complete physical and nervous exhaustion. I was preparing to give up my work again, this time for an indefinite period, and again go to Europe to consult more doctors.

It was just at this juncture that Christian Science was recommended to me for the second time. Before the operation referred to I had had treatment for two weeks from a practitioner in Shanghai. But I had started that treatment with the mental reservation that, if it failed — as it probably would — there was still the operation to fall back on. But the second time, having exhausted the resources of medical science, I was disposed to give Christian Science as fair a trial as I had given medicine and surgery. I began reading Science and Health. At first I could do this for only a quarter of an hour a day, and that not without considerable pain. But I persevered, for already hope was beginning to dawn. After a fortnight's reading, I appealed for help to the same practitioner as before. With the very first treatment I was able to discard one pair of glasses; in six weeks the second pair went forever. By this time my daily reading had been increased to three or four hours; and I was beginning dimly to realize that I had found something which would not only cure my physical ills, but would also answer questions to which for years I had vainly sought answers in other religious teachings.

By the end of six months I had resumed all my normal occupations. I had thrown aside all my glasses, although I had worn them for reading for twenty years. The headaches, or, to speak more correctly, my fear of them, yielded more slowly. But about eighteen months from the time I turned whole-heartedly to Christian Science, all the symptoms had totally disappeared. And they never returned.

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