Testimony of Healing January 1, 1977 Issue

About nineteen years ago my husband and I had our first interview...

Lois LaDow Hilton with contributions from George W. Hilton

About nineteen years ago my husband and I had our first interview for the adoption of a child. Because those seeking to adopt far outnumbered available children, we desired to approach the matter unselfishly. A sentence from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy instructed me (p. 326): "Working and praying with true motives, your Father will open the way."

The agency, learning I was a Christian Scientist, revealed that this was their first application involving a Scientist. Their regulations required that I have an examination by a gynecologist. I explained my religious reasons for preferring not to submit to physical examination but added that if necessary I would cooperate. At the second interview we were asked about our attitude regarding shots for the baby. My husband was not at that time a student of Christian Science and had been in the Medical Corps, so his natural response was to consent. Earlier he had desired that our first son have shots. Other interviews followed. Then came the waiting period. I continued to pray with the same helpful passage from Science and Health.

Finally, one day an agency representative came by to ask, "How would you feel about a certain little boy coming to live with you three days from now?" What a joy this was for us and for our first son, then four and a half, who had not been told about the possibility of a brother or sister.

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