Testimony of Healing December 6, 1975 Issue

I have many times been encouraged by the testimonies found...

Marguerite F. Hale with contributions from La Verne Taylor

I have many times been encouraged by the testimonies found in the Christian Science periodicals. Hoping that someone may benefit by my experience, I would like to submit two recent healings.

After a long illness of my husband and many discouraging trials, my health seemed to be failing. Even though I studied the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly daily, my condition showed no improvement. My eyes, which had been troublesome for many years, became weak and alarmingly inflamed. I feared that it would lead to blindness. This made me realize that I was accepting mesmerizing beliefs of age and deterioration, as I had passed my seventy-fourth birthday.

I asked for help from a devoted Christian Scientist, who told me to study and hold to a passage in the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which answers the question, "What is substance?" The first sentence reads (p. 468): "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay." Further in the paragraph it says: "The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit." I was also directed to the definition of "eyes" in the Glossary, where a portion reads (ibid., p. 586): "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental."