Testimony of Healing October 24, 1936 Issue

Some years ago I had an experience for which I shall...

Freeman H. Seymour

Some years ago I had an experience for which I shall never cease to be grateful. While I was working on a pile driver, it was my work to roll the logs off the pile and prepare them for driving. One day a log started to roll, and before I could stop it, my foot was caught between it and another log, and I was thrown to the ground. With my own efforts and the help of another man I was released from the trap. Having been a Christian Scientist for several years, I knew how to avail myself to some extent of "the prayer of faith" which saves the sick. I worked with some difficulty until noon. By that time the pain seemed to be getting the best of me, so I told the boss that I should be obliged to go home.

At that time I was riding to work on a motorcycle, so I mounted the cycle and started for home. I had to drive very slowly, as every jolt of the machine was very painful. On reaching home I was unable to touch my foot to the floor. My wife helped me into the house, and I lay down on the couch and tried to get a realization of the truth that makes free. However, I was in such pain that I could not think clearly; so I asked my wife to help me. In about twenty minutes all the pain left, so I got up, sat in a chair, took my books—the Bible, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Christian Science Quarterly. I was determined not to move from that position until Truth had pierced the veil and enabled me to walk out on my own (God's) power with two good feet.

In about an hour I could feel the healing going on in my foot; in about two hours I could bear a little weight on the foot without pain; by bedtime I could walk quite easily, although limping a little. The next morning I was up and dressed and went to work with an entirely normal foot. At first I was almost afraid to walk for fear that some trouble would develop; but these thoughts were all dispelled through realization of the truth found in the ninety-first Psalm.

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