Testimony of Healing November 22, 1941 Issue

In giving thanks for many blessings received since beginning...

Wilfrid James Absalom

In giving thanks for many blessings received since beginning the study of Christian Science, I should like to offer an account of some valuable lessons learned through being enabled to realize that we need never accept as a reality any inharmonious circumstance that may seem to be beyond our control.

At the age of ten months, with the loving help of a practitioner, a son was healed of rickets. The healing was rapid. At one period the baby seemed to be in great pain, and cried whenever he was touched; then, within a very short time, it was seen that there was no longer any pain or discomfort. All the medical prophecies of delayed walking powers in such cases were discounted, and the progress of the child was entirely normal from that time on.

When the boy was old enough to attend school, there was considerable disappointment because, through a residential disqualification, he was unable to attend the school which was thought most suitable. He was sent to another school, but there he seemed to be backward and inattentive. An attempt to settle the problem by criticizing the child for disobedience in not applying himself more diligently to his schoolwork, met with no success; for the uncorrected thought of the parents, that he would progress normally if he attended another school, was still being allowed to hold him in bondage.

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