Testimony of Healing July 7, 1917 Issue

Freely I have received, freely I would give

Frederick H. Seibert with contributions from Kathryn F. Seibert, Clara J. Simon

Freely I have received, freely I would give. Christian Science found me in total darkness, materially speaking. I was suffering from nervous exhaustion, sleeplessness, gastritis, and imperfect circulation. My mental condition was wretched, my eyesight very poor, my hearing much impaired. In addition I had a rupture of twenty years' standing, and suffered from night sweats, fallen arches, and other ailments. One day in June, 1915, a Christian Scientist gave me a little pamphlet, which I read before retiring. That night I slept like a child, the first peaceful sleep I had enjoyed in a long time.

Three weeks later, while in Springfield, Mass., my right hand became inoculated with what a physician pronounced blood-poisoning in a severe form. I suffered dreadfully from fear, and requested my wife to write to my sister at Columbus, Ohio, who had taken up the study of Christian Science, and ask her to mail me some literature. She lovingly sent half a dozen Sentinels, and I began to read them at once. The first copy fairly staggered me, but upon reading several others the clouds broke, and I realized that nothing was impossible to God. Each day when the physician called he was dumbfounded at my improvement and could not understand it. I continued to read the truth, and at the end of two weeks the doctor pronounced me healed. As I bade him good-by he said I was most fortunate. I told him that I was a believer in Christian Science, but he said it made no difference. To prove what a difference it did make I immediately began to suffer from a relapse, and it was thought I would pass on. The family insisted on a physician, although I had no fear and did not want one; but when my wife telephoned for one she found that he was out.

In the mean time my sister had gone to a Christian Science practitioner, who gave me an absent treatment. At that moment I was perfectly healed, and immediately arose from my bed and dressed. In my great joy I forgot my truss, and the next morning upon arising I threw it into the stove. I laid aside my glasses, threw away my arch supports, together with all medicine, and with them went other erroneous beliefs. To me it seemed as though everything had been written on a blackboard and then erased,—as though gentle hands had taken me out of a deep, dark pit and set me in the sunshine, where I have been ever since.

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