Testimony of Healing November 5, 1960 Issue

Since childhood I have had the...

Alan W. Laidlaw

Since childhood I have had the blessings of Christian Science, and I am most grateful for the healings and support I have received. While at college I had an eye condition which left me with impaired vision and which eventually led to the need of wearing glasses for reading. During the following years I had opportunity for growth in Christian Science through study and church work, but I seemed not to be able to free myself from dependence on glasses.

In 1940 I was required to take a series of physical tests, and I passed them all except the eye test. However, the medical examiner recommended that I discard the glasses for a few days, adding that in his opinion it might strengthen my eyes. This human remedial advice woke me up to the truth contained in Mrs. Eddy's definition of "eyes" on page 586 of Science and Health, which reads in part, "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental."

I realized that time or a material procedure certainly could not strengthen a perfect spiritual faculty any more than it could weaken it. For a few days I studied this definition and seriously pondered other passages in Science and Health. Then I took the eye examination again and passed it without any difficulty. What pleased me most was that I never had to use my glasses again; indeed I did not think of them thereafter.

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