Testimony of Healing January 7, 1980 Issue

Several years ago, a friend was driving me to the...

HAZEL J. SHARP

Several years ago, a friend was driving me to the hairdresser when I suffered a severe stroke. She wanted to take me right to the hospital, but I insisted she take me home, because I knew my son would be able to help me. He immediately contacted a nearby sanatorium for Christian Scientists and drove me there.

A Christian Science practitioner was called, and he came at once to see me; I was at the sanatorium for over a year. During those months the practitioner visited me two or three times a week, sometimes every day. He and I would read the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly out loud together. There were many verses from the Bible and statements from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy that we worked with along the way. This was most helpful (Science and Health, p. 393): "Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action. Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man."

A healing that occurred during this time was that of cataracts on both eyes. The condition had been diagnosed by an eye specialist, who urged me to have an operation. I declined, as I was certain that God could heal me. One evening I noticed that my vision, which had become blurred and strained, was now clear and free of strain. I was healed of the cataracts! Later, my niece, who is not a Scientist, took me to another eye specialist. He told me that I had the eyes of a twenty-one-year-old (I was nearly ninety then) and confirmed that there was no trace of cataracts.

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