Testimony of Healing December 13, 1900 Issue

What Christian Science has Done for Me

D. F. Seaver

I am in my seventy-ninth year. I joined the Methodist Church when I was seventeen, attended services and Sabbath School regularly, and had no doubt that the Methodists were in truth Christ's peculiar people. I never enjoyed a robust constitution, and chronic troubles kept my body in a suffering condition. After I was forty years of age I was seldom out of medicine and consulted many physicians, two specialists. They gave me no encouragement that I would ever be well, telling me that medicine would keep me more comfortable while I remained in the body.

Whenever I commenced taking a new remedy I seemed to improve, but after a little the trouble would become aggravated and I would try another doctor or different medicine. When I had reached seventy-three years of age my nervous system seemed a wreck. I could not sleep, was taking all kinds of medicine to produce sleep, yet I would be very wide awake and the more I tried not to think or be troubled the more it seemed to me the unpleasant things of life would crowd about me. Oh, the horrors of those nights those that have experienced the like only know. I could not read or hear reading, could not converse with friends, and was obliged to keep secluded. All this time I was suffering from a number of chronic complaints.

When I heard of a wonderful cure of a friend of mine through Christian Science, I at once sought to inform myself of its healing. One of its earnest workers sought me out and worked indefatigably to bring me into the Truth, but my progress was very slow. It seemed to me that I had to dig out the old thought by the roots, as it appeared to have become so a part of my being that it was impossible to accept the new without eradicating the old. It had always seemed strange to me that Christ should command his followers to heal the sick and yet not give them power to do so. I was quite sure the mistake was with us, therefore I strove to understand "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and also to demonstrate according to its teachings.

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