Testimony of Healing March 15, 1947 Issue

When a new student of Christian Science...

Constance Talbot

When a new student of Christian Science I was completely healed of the necessity of wearing glasses. Only a month previous to this I had bought a copy of Science and Health by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. My aim was to learn more about man's relation to God. I skipped all reference to healing until I was arrested by the statement (pp. 391, 392): "Fear is the fountain of sickness, and you master fear and sin through divine Mind." I pondered the first part of this sentence for several days. As I reviewed the history of the trouble with my eyes I could clearly see the truth of Mrs. Eddy's statement. When I was four years old my mother voiced to me her belief that I had weak eyesight, and took me to an oculist for glasses. I had worn glasses prescribed by many oculists for forty-five years. I was particularly sensitive to bright lights and always felt sick if I took off my glasses. The last oculist had told me that I was going blind, and so for four years previous to my healing I had read nothing, but spent every evening in the dark listening to the radio.

Several days after I had accepted the statement quoted, my handbag containing two pairs of reading glasses disappeared and I could not see to read Science and Health. I turned to God as had always been my habit, and asked, "Shall I borrow money and buy new eyeglasses?" The direction that I should seek a healing in Christian Science was clear. With the desire to do God's will I went to a Christian Science Reading Room and sat down at a desk. I asked God to show me where to start, and Science and Health fell open at the first page of the chapter entitled "Footsteps of Truth." With my street glasses I could only see a blurred page of print, but I knew that I had been instructed to read and that therefore I could read.

I persisted for one and three-quarter hours, knowing that nothing could prevent me from carrying out God's will. Then out of the fog emerged two clear words. From this I knew that long-established fear could not prevent me from claiming the perfection that was in reality mine. I shared my joy with the librarian and went out with overwhelming gratitude. I then asked myself why I was wearing street glasses and immediately removed them. I persisted in my efforts, reading Science and Health for three hours every day without glasses. In two weeks' time all fog and jumpiness disappeared. I made the truth part of my life and refused to permit old habits of sensitiveness to light and sickness to be a part of me. For one month I kept constant vigilance against these false claims, while continuing to learn more about man's heritage and dominion. I was such a new student of Christian Science that I did not even know about studying the Lesson-Sermon. Healing came by complete reliance on God.

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