Testimony of Healing July 22, 1905 Issue

About eighteen years ago I was called to Illinois to help...

Clara A. Seyffert

About eighteen years ago I was called to Illinois to help take care of my mother, who had gone there a short time before on a visit, and had been taken sick with what the doctors called consumption. I was very much shocked when I saw her, as she was a mere shadow of her former self, and it seemed impossible that one could change so in such a short time. We thought we had done all that could be done, and must make the best of it, but God came to our aid and sent us a messenger of Truth. My aunt, being in a neighboring town, met a dear woman who told her that my mother could be healed, and arrangements were made for her to visit my mother, with the result that she began taking Christian Science treatment and was healed almost immediately, although she took treatment for some time for fear of a relapse. In a day or two after she began treatment she concluded she would go to the woods, so she started out, and in place of going to the gate she went to the back of the lot and had to climb a high board fence. When told to come back and go through the gate, she said, "Oh, no, I can climb the fence, I feel like a bird." In a few days she took a long walk to visit a sister, and in six weeks she was on her way to Lamar, Mo., a distance of several hundred miles, at which place she still lives, and is a living witness to the healing power of Christian Science. After my mother's healing I clung to Christian Science, although I knew nothing about it to speak of, only that she was healed, and that was enough.

For nine years I never read a word on Christian Science, nor met but one Christian Scientist. Nine years ago I had my first absent treatment. From that time on I began studying, and am still at work. Many blessings have come to us through this truth, and although we have been called upon to pass through deep waters, God has been with us and we have been comforted.

About two years after I came into Christian Science, our little boy was taken ill in the night, and at seven in the morning he had a raging fever and did not know his papa or me. It seemed very serious at the time, but with the help of a practitioner the ailment was met, and at ten o'clock he was sitting on the floor, eating an apple, without a trace of fever or any other discord. In addition to this we have had spasms, whooping-cough, measles, and many other ailments quickly overcome by the truth. When my first child was born I lingered from Tuesday morning until Thursday, then I wired a practitioner at Topeka, Kan., for treatment. That night every one in the house, myself included, slept well all night and at seven the next morning the birth took place and without pain. All my children were born under Christian Science treatment, and I can truthfully say without pain. When the last two came, no one was present but my husband, who is with me in Science, and we are rejoicing more and more each day in this truth that makes free. Two years ago, my father was taken with pneumonia in a very severe form, and although he was seventy-four years old, and it was very cold weather, he was not in bed one whole day. In less than a week he was out helping carry in wood and water. These are a few of the blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science, and I am very thankful to our dear Leader for her labor of love.—Clara A. Seyffert, Joplin, Mo.

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