Article January 4, 1969 Issue

We Can See Clearly—Near or Far

RUPERT PROHME

Christian Science offers effective relief to those suffering from any of the myriad claims of impaired vision. This healing religion affirms that perfect vision is spiritual, the reflection of Soul, or God, forever intact and continuously available without limitation to all God's ideas.

During World War II the writer was rejected when he applied for pilot training because his physical examination showed he had limited distance vision in one eye. He silently rejected the report of the oculist and immediately began to pray to correct this condition through Christian Science. A Christian Science practitioner, whom he asked to help him, pointed out that true sight is a faculty of Soul, forever perfect and without a history of deterioration—that matter is not the basis of sight.

The writer's sense was greatly uplifted by the practitioner's steadfast rejection of the negative testimony of material sense and her emphasis on the divine promise that perfect vision is God's gift to all. Soon his sense of impaired vision was replaced by a sense of confidence in God's omnipotence, perfection, and goodness. In a few months he was drafted into the Army and passed the eye test with 20/20 vision in both eyes. This test was repeated many times during his five-year military career, each time with the same result.

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