In March, 1937, I came home one evening to find our...

Henry A. Pfeiffer, Jr.

In March, 1937, I came home one evening to find our son, a boy of nineteen, sick in bed. My wife was very much disturbed and alarmed. Although she is not a Christian Scientist, she is very favorably disposed toward it, and the boy had been attending a Christian Science Sunday School for several years. My wife wished to call a physician and finally did so. The doctor came about nine o'clock, carefully examined the boy, and pronounced the case scarlet fever. He gave detailed directions about fumigation and sanitary matters, and stated that if the boy remained at home, the entire household would have to be quarantined for thirty days, and, therefore, that it would be much better to send the boy at once to an isolation hospital. Upon leaving, he said that before making such arrangements he would come again in the morning in order to check his diagnosis by an examination in daylight.

When he left, my wife was panic-stricken, but I earnestly declared that God's child could not have scarlet fever, and that I intended to call a Christian Science practitioner, to which my wife immediately and wholeheartedly agreed. I called a practitioner, who declared that God's idea cannot suffer from scarlet fever, and that she felt sure it would not be necessary for the boy to go to the hospital. She began work at once.

The doctor came again the next morning, and another examination by daylight, and emphatically declared the case scarlet fever. He called the isolation hospital for an ambulance, but they replied that at the moment they had no room to receive the case, but would call him as soon as they had. I again called the practitioner, who was working faithfully and who repeated her previous declaration that it would not be necessary for the boy to go to the hospital. Later on, the doctor telephoned to say that while awaiting word from the hospital, he would like to have a specialist from an adjoining town examine the boy to make assurance of his diagnosis beyond any question; and we agreed to this.

In the afternoon the specialist came, examined the boy, and while not giving any specific name to the disease, stated positively that it was not scarlet fever and would soon be gone. On the third day our son was up and well.

Needless to say, my wife and I were extremely grateful to the practitioner and to Christian Science for this definite and swift disposal of the disease.

No medicine was given during this time and no material remedies were used. The practitioner did not see the boy at any time during this experience, all her work being absent treatment. The only ones who saw the boy, except our immediate family, were the doctors.

For this, and for many other healings in Christian Science, received by my family and myself, I am very grateful.

Henry A. Pfeiffer, Jr., Verona, New Jersey.

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