Testimony of Healing April 16, 1932 Issue

With the desire to be helpful to others, I wish to relate...

Grace Fosmark

With the desire to be helpful to others, I wish to relate the blessing brought into our home through the teaching and practice of Christian Science.

A number of years ago I had a very unpleasant experience in childbirth. The baby was taken with instruments and did not survive. Two years later, when our little boy was born, the doctor considered it necessary to perform a Cæsarean operation, and he told me it was impossible for me to have another child.

When our boy was six years old we became students of Christian Science through his healing of tuberculosis. We moved to a small town where there were no students of Christian Science or services which we could attend, but we kept up our study and dependence on that truth to meet our every need. After six years of this study I found that I was again to become a mother. It was necessary to place radical reliance on Christian Science. In this state one is free to employ what means one desires in childbirth. I decided to depend wholly upon Christian Science, so engaged a Christian Science nurse and a Christian Science practitioner, without any medical consultation or aid. My relatives were fearful and frantic. This compelled me to do more consecrated work to meet their fears and dread. The nurse had been in the home for several days when, at midnight, we called the practitioner, who came to me. At five o'clock a ten-pound boy was delivered with no complications or after effects. My condition was normal. The nurse remained a week; after that I took over the management and entire care of this healthy baby and the household duties. That was five years ago, and both of our boys have been and are healthy and normal.

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