Over sixty years ago, when I was...

Albertine Jacobs Greene

Over sixty years ago, when I was twelve years of age, I was privileged to be enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School.

From babyhood I had suffered from periodic sick headaches and an aggravating cough, which physicians had told my mother might develop into something serious. When I found out that I could be healed by learning about God as taught in Christian Science, I became a most ardent pupil.

At the time we did not have Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy in the home, for my mother was just getting interested in reading a neighbor's Sentinels. My Sunday School teacher, rioting my earnestness, brought me from her visit to Boston in 1906, on the occasion of the dedication of the extension of The Mother Church, a leather-bound bound Science and Health for my very own. How I loved and prized that book!

I seemed to have had an extremely sensitive, high-strung disposition, but when it was pointed out to me that sensitiveness was really a form of selfishness, thinking of self, I firmly resolved that I would not be selfish, so I began to work with myself. In proportion to my overcoming of the sensitiveness, the headaches gradually lessened until they finally were no longer any part of my experience. The cough also disappeared.

Many physical difficulties have been overcome, among which were a case of high blood pressure, a recurring severe case of uremic poisoning, sprained ankles, a fibroid tumor, a severe burn, and colds.

While I am very grateful for all these healings, I am most grateful for the guiding light Christian Science has been to me all through the years. It led me through the problems of adolescence into happy young adulthood and into a successful teaching career and a happy marriage. A sense of lack has been replaced with a sense of abundance. I have seen the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream of establishing a school of my own for children. And now that that happy experience is over, my greatest joy is in helping others, especially young people, to find and keep to this wonderful way of life.

My gratitude that Christian Science came to me at such an early age and that I had the privilege of Sunday School and later of class instruction is unbounded. How can we ever be grateful enough for Mrs. Eddy and her courageous work! Christian Science is indeed the Comforter that Christ Jesus promised would lead us into all Truth (see John 14:16; 16:13).

(Mrs.) Albertine Jacobs Greene
Garden Grove, California

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