Testimony of Healing December 27, 1969 Issue

Although I had been reared in Christian Science, I succumbed at...

Bernice K. Ripley

Although I had been reared in Christian Science, I succumbed at the age of forty or so to the general belief that I needed eyeglasses. It seemed easier to read with them and easier not to put them on and off, so I wore them all the time for over twenty-five years.

Several years ago I became more and more impressed with the articles and testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals regarding sight, and I had a great desire to demonstrate these truths. I realized more clearly that seeing is indeed a mental process and, as I had always known, that we do not see with matter but with intelligence. Mrs. Eddy defines "eyes" in the textbook, Science and Health (p. 586):

"Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental.

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