Several years ago while sewing beads on an evening sweater in...

Margaret M. Peabody

Several years ago while sewing beads on an evening sweater in an elaborate pattern, I suddenly found I could neither see to thread a needle nor find the holes in the beads. This was alarming, for I had never had any eye trouble.

I studied all the references I could find on sight in the Bible, and in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, but there seemed to be no improvement in my vision. Since Christmas was fast approaching and the sweater—a gift—was unfinished, reluctantly I went to an optometrist for a prescription for glasses.

The optometrist, knowing I was a great-grandmother, remarked that it was probably time I had glasses! I reminded myself that sight is really spiritual and not dependent upon age or other material factors. However, I finished the sweater, and used the glasses for needlework and reading. I knew that someday I would be free of this need, but I always postponed the day of more dedicated scientific study.

Two years ago, when I had to fly to Florida for a meeting and was driving myself to the airport (a trip of ninety miles), halfway there I discovered I had left the glasses at home. My first thought was that this was a disaster, for I was to be away four days and would have telephone numbers to look up in Florida and a report to write. I had brought a book to read on the plane and needlework to do, and there I was with no glasses!

It was too late to turn back, but I told myself this was no disaster but that now I could make the demonstration I'd been postponing all those years. I knew that sight is really spiritual, and that Jesus said to his disciples, "Having eyes, see ye not?" and that shortly after that he healed a blind man (Mark 8:18, 25).

By the time I reached the airport I felt secure in the knowledge that this was truly an opportunity to demonstrate, as Jesus and his disciples did, man's God-given dominion over disease. I remembered that Ananias had restored Saul's sight and "there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith" (Acts 9:18). As Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 25): "Implicit faith in the Teacher and all the emotional love we can bestow on him, will never alone make us imitators of him. We must go and do likewise, else we are not improving the great blessings which our Master worked and suffered to bestow upon us."

When I boarded the plane, I took out my book and could read every word clearly. I finished the needlework, and noticed in Florida that I was able to read the numbers in the telephone book without glasses! The "scales" had fallen from my eyes!

Recently I passed with flying colors the eye examination for the renewal of my driver's license, as well as a complete physical check required for automobile insurance. At the end of the latter examination the doctor wrote as an added comment, "She is in excellent health."

For this latest proof of divine Love's power to heal, I am grateful.

(Mrs.) Margaret M. Peabody
Millbrook, New York

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