Testimony of Healing August 3, 1998 Issue

Trouble with legs healed

Richard L. Wagner

About four years after my retirement from business, I became temporarily incapacitated in my legs. I asked a Christian Science practitioner to treat me. She effectively prayed for me, and required that I do a better job of praying for myself. As a result, I was freed of the difficulty and able to spend more time as a volunteer Christian Science chaplain, reading the Bible Lessons (found in the Christian Science Quarterly) in English and Spanish and counseling prison inmates.

After my wife passed on, I continued the prison work, though without the support she had given me by playing piano accompaniments to the hymns sung by the inmates. Mental backsliding resulted in a recurrence of the leg difficulty. A little later I remarried. When the leg problem, which I had been "getting by" with, was not healed, my new wife, who was not a Christian Science was understandably worried.

To relieve her concerns, I agreed to have a diagnosis if the problem was not healed by Christian Science in three days. It was not, so I went to a hospital emergency room. There was a four-hour delay before I could be attended to. While I waited and prayed, the practitioner agreed to continue treating me.

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