Testimony of Healing August 18, 1956 Issue

My mother was a student of ...

Audrey S. Hilliker

My mother was a student of Christian Science, and I had the blessed privilege of attending the Sunday School during my early years. Later I attended a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. However, as time went on I became apathetic in my study and attended church services less and less frequently.

Shortly after the birth of our daughter a condition developed in my right eye which, in addition to being extremely painful, affected my vision. I went to an optometrist, who told me that the vision in the affected eye was very weak and that he could do nothing for me in the way of fitting me with glasses. He recommended a series of electrical treatments to try to clear up the inflamed condition which he said existed. After two or three treatments, which did me no good, I realized that my real need was for spiritual light; so I turned back to Christian Science, asked the help of a consecrated practitioner, and began to study in earnest.

I had to get rid of much material thinking, a feeling of insecurity, and a false sense of self, but there was progress from the beginning. I remember the great joy with which I realized one day that I was not seeking spiritual sight as a sort of consolation for the material sight which I thought I was losing, but that spiritual sight was actually the only sight I had ever enjoyed. I saw that the so-called material sense of sight was merely a counterfeit and never had been the reality.

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