The following demonstration, has been of such help to...

Herbert W. Eustace

The following demonstration, has been of such help to me through the lesson it has taught, that I feel it may be of equal help to some one else, so I send it out to the Field.

When eighteen years of age, I had the measles, and in due time recovered from them, with apparently no bad effects. About a year later, I became conscious of the fact that I was perfectly deaf in one ear, and immediately attributed it to the measles, as I had been told that they usually left an unpleasant after effect, especially in the case of adults. I did not try to do anything for the trouble through materia medica, for I supposed it was incurable, and my other ear being very good, it was not a great inconvenience. In a few years, however, I began to be troubled with my good ear whenever I bathed. At first the deafness would only last about fifteen minutes, but gradually the time increased, until I took up the study of Christian Science, when it grew much worse.

I treated myself earnestly and faithfully, but apparently to no purpose. Right here let me say that I always did the treating after I had bathed and when the deafness was present. This went on for a number of months, and the trouble had reached the point where the deafness would last until ten and eleven o'clock the following day, causing me much fear, inconvenience, and mortification.

Finally, one evening just before bathing, this passage came to me from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," p.392: "When the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office, as porter, shutting out these unhealthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors, then the body cannot suffer therefrom."

I saw at once where I had been in error. I had been barring my door after I had allowed the enemy to enter. I sat down, right then and there, and locked and secured the door of my thought against the lying belief that matter could affect matter, or that man's senses were material. I realized that God, Spirit, created man, that like produces like; hence, since man was spiritual and his senses must be spiritual too, they therefore could not be interfered with. In the strength of this thought I bathed, and awoke the following morning, not only free in what I called the good ear, but in the deaf one also, and I have had no trouble since, some seven or eight years.

The lesson is clear and is forcibly expressed in the familiar saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

Jesus said, "What I say unto you I say unto all. Watch."

Herbert W. Eustace, San Jose, Cal.

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