After a complete breakdown during the summer of 1918,...

Esther Jacob Fox with contributions from Charles L. Fox

After a complete breakdown during the summer of 1918, I became interested in Christian Science. I recovered my health and saw that the study of this Science was beneficial. My husband, being indifferent, allowed me to place our children in the Sunday school, but would not allow me to consult a Christian Science practitioner.

During the fall of 1920, while we were still at our country home, our youngest child, then six and a half years old, was knocked down by an automobile. In accordance with the agreement I had made with my husband upon taking up the study of Christian Science, the children's physician was called and the child taken to the nearest hospital, a distance of fourteen miles. Upon examination it was found that the child's skull was fractured. He was in a state of coma for six days; then spinal meningitis developed. A nerve specialist from New York was called in consultation. He told me that there was not the slightest chance of recovery.

I telephoned this to my husband in New York, and while waiting for the train he telephoned to a Christian Science practitioner asking him to help the child. Surely "man's extremity is God's opportunity." When he arrived at the hospital and told me what he had done, I knew that my prayers had been answered. Absent treatment had been started at once, and the next day we could see a decided improvement. Two days later the attending surgeon told me the boy had every chance of recovery. In about four days he was out of the condition of coma and the meningitis had cleared, but he was entirely paralyzed on the right side.

I wrote of this to the practitioner and also asked the hospital authorities for permission to take the child home. Finally this was granted, and he was laid across the back seat of the car just two weeks after the accident, and I slowly drove the fourteen miles to our home. In another week he was sitting up in bed using his right hand, and one morning I discovered him standing up in bed. Just six weeks from the day of the accident we drove one hundred and twentysix miles back to our home in the city. The child was in perfect health. The following Sunday we went to church, where the practitioner saw the child for the first time. He continues to go to Sunday school, works out each problem as it arises with the teachings received there, and has been instrumental in drawing his father into Science.

For these blessings and many more that I have received I am most grateful. I am grateful to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for making clear the wonderful teachings of Jesus, the Way shower. I am also grateful to the loving practitioners and for all the activities of the Christian Science movement.

(Mrs.) Esther Jacob Fox, New York, New York.

I am glad to indorse the above testimony of my wife, and at this time should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science.—Charles L. Fox, D. D. S.

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