Testimony of Healing September 15, 1951 Issue

The first healing in our family...

Margaret Thomas

The first healing in our family of five was of diseased tonsils. A school nurse called on me to explain how badly this condition was affecting our son and said that he would not be allowed back in school after the summer holidays unless he had had the tonsils removed. I did not approve of surgical operations, as this boy had had one that was not successful, and he was already behind a term in school because of sickness. The boy had been attending a Christian Science Sunday School for a few months through the invitation of a school chum. I was very happy about this, for it was the longest period he had attended any Sunday School. He had been enrolled in several different orthodox Sunday Schools, but was unable to find satisfaction and happiness in any of them.

My mother, who was visiting me at the time, urged me to have Christian Science treatment, as she had heard of many cases of healing through this Science. The next day I took the boy to a practitioner. She listened patiently to my story and then invited me to attend church services. She also showed me how to study the Lesson-Sermon, as given in the Christian Science Quarterly.

During the summer our family was so busy attending the services or the Sunday School in a branch church, studying the Lesson-Sermon, and working out other problems with the loving help of the practitioner that I forgot all about the boy's tonsils. It was not until fall, when he brought his report card home from school—for the first time it showed a hundred per cent in health—that I realized he had been healed. He has been in excellent health since and was able to make up the term he had lost.

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