Testimony of Healing November 8, 1930 Issue

After a complete breakdown during the summer of 1918,...

Esther Jacob Fox with contributions from Charles L. Fox

After a complete breakdown during the summer of 1918, I became interested in Christian Science. I recovered my health and saw that the study of this Science was beneficial. My husband, being indifferent, allowed me to place our children in the Sunday school, but would not allow me to consult a Christian Science practitioner.

During the fall of 1920, while we were still at our country home, our youngest child, then six and a half years old, was knocked down by an automobile. In accordance with the agreement I had made with my husband upon taking up the study of Christian Science, the children's physician was called and the child taken to the nearest hospital, a distance of fourteen miles. Upon examination it was found that the child's skull was fractured. He was in a state of coma for six days; then spinal meningitis developed. A nerve specialist from New York was called in consultation. He told me that there was not the slightest chance of recovery.

I telephoned this to my husband in New York, and while waiting for the train he telephoned to a Christian Science practitioner asking him to help the child. Surely "man's extremity is God's opportunity." When he arrived at the hospital and told me what he had done, I knew that my prayers had been answered. Absent treatment had been started at once, and the next day we could see a decided improvement. Two days later the attending surgeon told me the boy had every chance of recovery. In about four days he was out of the condition of coma and the meningitis had cleared, but he was entirely paralyzed on the right side.

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