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  	                        HEALTH AND PEACE ATTAINED 

 9	    For fifteen years I was a great sufferer physically and
  	mentally. Eminent physicians treated me for hereditary
  	consumption, torpid liver, and many other diseases. I
12	sought relief at famous springs, the ozone of Florida, and
  	the pure air of Colorado, but in vain. My life was one
  	ceaseless torture. 
15	    During all this time, however, I was an earnest seeker
  	after Truth. I examined every religious teaching with
  	a calm and unprejudiced attention. From an orthodox
18	Protestant I became a skeptic, and a follower of Voltaire,
  	Tom Paine, and Ingersoll; yet all the while I retained
  	faith in a supreme intelligent Being who made all. Sick,
21	weary, doubting, and despairing, I accidentally went into
  	a Christian Science church in New York City, on a Wed-
  	nesday evening, not knowing what kind of a place it was. 
24	Seeing a large number of people going into the build-
  	ing, I followed, supposing that a marriage ceremony
  	had attracted the crowd. Being informed it was their
27	regular Wednesday evening service, I inquired as to the
  	denomination. I concluded that it was another new fad,
  	but after investigation I procured a copy of Science and
30	Health, promising I would read it carefully. I began
 1	reading the book on Tuesday and finished on Friday of
  	the same week. I was still in the dark. I laid the book
 3	down, involuntarily closed my eyes, and sile...ntly prayed
  	to God. 
  	    I remained in that attitude a few moments, when I
 6	felt like the mariner who had been tossed for days upon
  	a boisterous sea, the clouds bending low, the billows
  	rolling high, all nature wrapped in darkness; in his de-
 9	spair he kneels and commits his soul to God, when he
  	suddenly beholds the North Star breaking through the
  	clouds, enabling him to guide his ship to the shores of
12	safety. Many things were made plain to me. I saw
  	that there is one Fatherhood of God and one brother-
  	hood of man; that though "once I was blind, now I see;"
15	that there was no more pain, nor aches, no fear, nor in-
  	digestion. I slept that night like a babe and awoke next
  	morning refreshed. There are now no traces whatever of
18	my former complaint and I feel like a new being. — L. P.,
             New York, N. Y. 
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