Testimony of Healing May 8, 1915 Issue

In June, 1909, the teaching of Christian Science was unfolded...

Richard T. Greene

In June, 1909, the teaching of Christian Science was unfolded to me when I was greatly in need of help. For many years I was a semiinvalid and tried physicians of different schools, as well as hygienic rules. I also went to a sanitarium, where the doctors were sure they could relieve me, but utter failure followed their efforts. I was then brought to the hopeless thought that there was no relief for me, and that my earning days being past, I was about to become a burden on my adopted children. I called one of our best physicians, and asked him to give me a careful examination and freely and fearlessly tell me the result, saying that he need not fear, for if I knew that I could go to sleep and never wake I would be happy. He informed me that I had organic heart disease, which could not be cured, also bowel, stomach, and liver troubles. This I thoroughly believed, and felt that any one of them was of such a character that I might pass away in consequence. A few days later he said there was no use in my coming again, as he could not help me.

At this time a Christian Scientist called, and as a result of her call she sent me a list of the Christian Science practitioners in Pasadena, and after about two days I managed to get to the telephone and ask for treatment from one of them. A few hours later a practitioner came. The result was that all symptoms of heart trouble were overcome, and the healing has been permanent. All the other ill conditions have also been healed, and I am a vigorous, healthy man at sixty-eight years of age. Different ailments have now and then presented themselves, but they have been promptly banished.

I have been, and am now, free and happy, and grateful beyond any words at my command. I have been healed of imperfect hearing, and my sight is much improved. I had worn glasses for several years, but now I use them only for very fine print, and not always even for that. My healing from a severe attack of acute lung trouble was most interesting. At noon on Wednesday I was very weak, and the congested condition and high fever induced a friend to insist on my calling a practitioner, who came and was with me about two hours. I said, "This is Wednesday, and it will be the first Wednesday evening meeting that I have missed since I came into Science." The reply was, "Your place is at the meeting." About twenty minutes after the practitioner and my friend had gone, I got out of bed, dressed, got myself something to eat, then took the street-car and went to Pasadena. I took my place as usher in church and gave my testimony of the healing. The next morning I was at my place of business.

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