Testimony of Healing June 17, 1972 Issue

I commenced the study of Christian Science nearly fifty years ago

Gladys McCleery with contributions from Lynne P. Goble

I commenced the study of Christian Science nearly fifty years ago. At that time I was wearing glasses prescribed a few years previously by a specialist who said I was suffering from astigmatism, that I had been born with that condition, would have it for the remainder of my life, and would always need to wear glasses.

I had been reading the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, for about seven or eight weeks, when I had a great longing to be able to give up the glasses in order to prove to another the efficacy of Christian Science. I prayed most earnestly to God to help me in this direction. Then there came into my thought a passage from Science and Health. It runs thus: "Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are eternal. They cannot be lost" (p. 486). I could not understand why Mrs. Eddy should say that sight was spiritual when I was quite convinced that I saw through the medium of my eyes and they were material.

I prayed again very earnestly, this time to understand the passage. Then I found myself following a certain line of reasoning, which later I felt was God's answer to my prayer. I thought, "I expect eventually to see perfectly, but I do not expect to have material eyes. How then will I be able to see? Why, God will be causing me to see, which means Spirit will be causing me to see. Then since Spirit will be giving me sight, sight coming from Spirit must be spiritual; and that which is spiritual is eternal. It cannot be lost. Since it cannot be lost, I have not lost it. Then, as I have not lost it, I must possess it; and because it is spiritual, it is perfect, without any impairment or defect."

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