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I am grateful for the great need that humbled me sufficiently...
I am grateful for the great need that humbled me sufficiently to cause me to seek help in Christian Science. I had been told by one of the most eminent specialists that my eyes had been neglected until they were beyond help and that I should eventually become blind. The trouble was diagnosed as spasms of the nerves of the eyes, also compound astigmatism.
For the better part of two years. I had been unable to read more than a line or two at a time. During the first year of my study in Christian Science I was unable to read much except the Bible and Christian Science literature. In searching for instruction pertaining to the healing of blindness, I found this sentence in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 448): "Blindness and self-righteousness cling fast to iniquity." I did not turn down the sentence as not applicable to my case. I pondered it much until I saw that blindness was classified with self-righteousness, and to be healed of blindness, one must overcome self-righteousness by seeing the righteousness of God. I went back to study more carefully the entire sentence, "Blindness and self-righteousness cling fast to iniquity." How was a self-righteous thought to see the iniquities to which it was clinging fast? From the meaning of those words it seemed a hopeless task, for a self-righteous thought is sure it is right and is holding fast to what it believes is right or it would not be self-righteousness. It unconsciously thinks that what it cannot see is not to be seen. By further study I finally read in Romans, "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things." I was of a critical nature, and this verse opened my eyes to see that by honest application of it to self-correction I need no longer delay my healing by clinging fast to iniquity. My eyes began to improve immediately and in about four years I laid off glasses, and my sight was better than ever before. I had never had a specific treatment for my eyes, nor had I given myself one.

November 16, 1935 issue
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Peace
DELLA M. WHITNEY
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The Prayer of Gratitude
GEORGE C. EWING
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Enlarging Our Borders
ALTHEA JUANITA SELVIDGE
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The True Christian Scientist
FRANK A. CLARKE
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Understanding God's Omnipresence
PAUL MARSHALL ALLEN
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Reliance on God
MAUDE LOUISE NIRDLINGER
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The True Adventure
FRANCES DEWITT JOHN
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The Will of God
LOUISA MARY COADE
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It was gracious of the writer of article "Utopia and...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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I have not read the pamphlet so freely quoted in your...
Miss Alice E. Rose, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,
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In the Gleaner of August 8 several statements adverse...
George H. Kitendaugh, Committee on Publication for Jamaica, British West Indies,
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Spiritual Vision
Duncan Sinclair
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The Power of Omniscience
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Everett L. Grubb, Andrea G. Wilkins
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It is with deep gratitude that I testify to the healing and...
Alfred C. Taylor
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Although I was baptized into an orthodox faith, my family...
Louise Pond Nelson
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I wish to express my appreciation and gratitude for...
Claire Tudor Janes
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I wish to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science
Ellen M. Carter
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I should like to share with others a beautiful proof I had...
Alice White Wright
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When a young woman I witnessed the healing of a loved...
Berenice Prouty Rabig
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The Christ-Way
MARGARET WINGFIELD
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Reginald G. Ashman, H. L. Caldwell, Roelif H. Brooks