Testimony of Healing May 27, 2002 Issue

Glaucoma healed through prayer

Reynold Ramseyer

A few years ago I made an appointment with an optometrist for an eye examination, in order to get a new pair of glasses. After examining my eyes, the eye doctor told me that I had glaucoma, which, he said, was due to high blood pressure in the eyes.

He gave me a prescription for eyedrops and said I would have to use this medicine from then on because, according to him, glaucoma is incurable. He added that if I didn't follow the treatment he prescribed, I would become blind, although at that time my vision had not deteriorated. For a while I used the medication.

I was grateful, though, for the healings I had had through Christian Science since my childhood. And I wanted to trust God to heal me in this instance. So I made an appointment with a Christian Science practitioner. "I am ready to stop using the medicine for my eyes, if you agree to treat me through prayer," I told him. He agreed immediately. He mentioned some passages from the Bible and from books by Mary Baker Eddy, and asked me to study them.

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