Testimony of Healing November 27, 1971 Issue

For many years I have realized the importance of Christian Science...

Alice Otrey Thompson

For many years I have realized the importance of Christian Science healing. My parents joined a branch of Christ, Scientist, when I was a junior in high school. Shortly after that I was married and found myself drifting away because I had not fully understood the truths taught in Science. However, I always attended church on Sunday and sent my children to a Christian Science Sunday School, and we did rely on Christian Science for healings, never using drugs or pills of any kind.

When our son was born, the attending physician and others said he would not live long enough to be weighed, so they did not weigh him for six days, and then he was only two pounds and nine ounces. His hospital bracelet was loose on his ankle, and now it just fits my small finger.

I knew I had to put our child in God's care completely. After he had been in the nursery six weeks, they moved him to the pediatrics ward. He caught a severe cold, so that when I took him home at five pounds he was very congested. The second night home his breathing was fitful, and we called the attending physician, who came to our home and very graciously offered to take the baby and us right back to the hospital. The doctor said, "That baby needs oxygen and penicillin." He called the nurse to prepare an incubator.

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