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27	                   AFTER TWENTY YEARS' SUFFERING 

  	    From early girlhood I was considered an invalid, hav-
  	ing been injured by a hard fall while playing. The pain
30	was intense for some time and for several hours I was un-
 1	able to walk or stand alone. Later, a growing weakness
  	of the back accompanied with sharp pains alarmed my
 3	parents, who called a physician, and he pronounced it
  	spinal trouble. Then followed nearly twenty years of
  	increased suffering, at times very severe. As years went
 6	by and I became a wife and mother, my suffering in-
  	creased. Everything that medical skill could do was
  	done, but finding no lasting benefit from anything, I lost
 9	hope of recovery. 
  	    When Christian Science found me I was under the
  	doctor's sentence that if I lived the week through I would
12	become entirely helpless, not able to move hand or foot. 
  	My husband was a travelling man, and being urgently
  	called home, he met an old friend on the train who asked
15	why we did not try Christian Science. The reply, We
  	know nothing of it, was followed by a brief explanation
  	of its healing power and the benefit his family had re-
18	ceived. This inspired my husband with new hope, and
  	on his arrival at home he called on a practitioner, who
  	recommended our getting Science and Health, which we
21	did, but ignorance and the prejudice of old education
  	produced such fear that I hid the book under the covers
  	of ...the bed whenever the children came into the room,
24	fearing that it was not of God and would injure them. 
  	God's dear love was, however, more potent than these
  	foolish fears, and the first day I read from its sacred pages
27	I was convinced its teachings were the same truths as
  	Jesus Christ had taught centuries ago. When I had read
  	a few pages, I reached out and threw my medicine from the
30	open window at the head of my bed. I then turned back to
  	the book and began reading again, when, lo, the Christ-idea
  	dawned upon me, and I was healed instantaneously. 
 1	    I first noticed the spot in my back cooling, and soon
  	I got out of bed. I continued to read eagerly; I felt as
 3	if I wanted to devour the healing truth, and drank it in
  	as a thirsty plant does the gentle rain. When dinner was
  	prepared, I walked out and ate a hearty meal with the
 6	family, to the amazement of all. We shall never forget
  	what a joyful meal this was. How we did thank God
  	for Christian Science! 
 9	    As year after year has gone by, till twenty years have
  	passed and the healing has remained perfect, I have
  	grown to thank God with deeper sincerity that one brave
12	woman was found pure enough to bring forth this Christ-
  	healing again, to remain forever among men and to save
  	suffering humanity from all disease and sin. — Mrs.
15	P. L. H., Fairmont, Minn.
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