Testimony of Healing July 20, 1929 Issue

Over eighteen years ago, after losing our young son, and...

Louise N. Seipp

Over eighteen years ago, after losing our young son, and after I had undergone several minor operations and a major one was looming up, I was led, after much contempt for Christian Science, to say to my husband that if I had that book by Mrs. Eddy, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I believed I would read it. Although not interested in Christian Science, he secured it for me, and I read it all one Sunday. By night I began to realize how very much I had all my life wanted this beautiful religion, and the understanding of God and my relation to Him. I had been praying and reaching out for God and did not know it, and this was how the Father was answering me. That night I prayed that I might have a vision of the Father, even as Saul did; but what came to me instead was a "still small voice" saying with the Psalmist, "Be still, and know that I am God." This brought me a great measure of peace, and my joy was so great that I wanted to share it with the whole world.

When our second child came, there was much doubt as to whether I should recover, because of so-called laws which said that I could never have another child. Although I was only young in Science, the birth of the child was much more comfortable than was expected. For a period of years I could not follow Christian Science entirely because of opposition to it in my family, but finally took my stand ten and a half years ago; and it has been both my physician and our daughter's ever since. Once, when in New York city, my husband telephoned me that our daughter was quite ill with bronchitis, and that my mother in her great fear had sent for a physician. I told him to see the physician, explain my preference for Christian Science, and get a Christian Science practitioner, all of which he did. Then I immediately left New York for home, and when I reached there late that night, after an eleven-hour trip, found her well and happy.

Healings too numerous to mention have been accorded us, and one that was particularly wonderful was when our daughter fell while skating and injured her hand. She fainted, and I laid her on a couch and declared the truth that there are no accidents in God's kingdom, later calling up the practitioner, who asked if I would call a doctor and have the hand X-rayed. I said I could not go back to physicians and their ways, and that my faith was in God; and the practitioner said that he would work for her. In a short time she was propped up on the couch reading, and that night she slept with that hand supporting her face. The hand was much larger than normal and very dark; but in a few days she was able to practice on the piano with it, and in eleven days it was entirely healed and all the discoloration gone. Truly "with God all things are possible." We have also been healed of fear, grief over the loss of a dear one, colds, coughs, a badly cut head, falls, discontent, contempt, and undue criticism. I am very grateful for Christian Science, for the beloved channel through which it came, for the love it has brought, and for the better understanding that came, so that I can say with the Psalmist, "Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence."

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