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  	                    SAVED FROM INSANITY AND SUICIDE 

15	    A few years ago, while under a sense of darkness and
  	despair caused by ill health and an unhappy home, Sci-
  	ence and Health was loaned me with a request that I
18	should read it. 
  	    At that time my daughter was given up by materia
  	medica to die of lingering consumption, supposed to have
21	been inherited. My own condition seemed even more
  	alarming, as insanity was being manifested, and rather
  	than go to an insane asylum, it seemed to me the only
24	thing to do was to commit suicide. Heart trouble, kid-
  	ney complaint, and continual headaches caused from
  	female trouble were some of the many ailments I had
27	to contend with. My doctor tried to persuade me to
  	undergo an operation as a means of relief, but I had
  	submitted to a severe operation ten years previous, and
30	found only additional suffering as a result, so I would
  	not consent. 
 1	    When I began with Science and Health, I read the
  	chapter on "Prayer" first, and at that time did not sup-
 3	pose it possible for me to remember anything I read,
  	but felt a sweet sense of God's protection and power,
  	and a hope that I should at last find Him to be what
 6	I so much needed, — a present help in time of trouble. 
  	Before that chapter on "Prayer" was finished, my daugh-
  	ter was downstairs eating three meals a day, and daily
 9	growing stronger. Before I had finished reading the
  	textb...ook she was well, but never having heard that the
  	reading of Science and Health healed any one, it was
12	several months before I gave God the glory. 
  	    One by one my many ailments left me, all but the head-
  	aches; they were less frequent, until at the end of three
15	years the fear of them was entirely overcome. 
  	    Neither myself nor my daughter have ever received
  	treatments, but the study of the Bible and Science and
18	Health, the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy,
  	has healed us and keeps us well. 
  	    While Christian Science was very new to me, I at-
21	tended an experience meeting in First Church of Christ,
  	Scientist, Chicago. A gentleman told of an unhappy
  	woman who was about to separate from her husband. 
24	This gentleman had asked her if she did not love her
  	husband. She replied, "No; when I married him I
  	did, but not now." He told her God made man in His
27	image and likeness, and that He is perfect. He said
  	to her, "Go home and see only God's perfect man; you
  	don't need to love a sinful mortal such as you have been
30	looking upon." The lady followed his advice, as he
  	told her there is no separation in divine Mind. In a
  	short time peace and harmony were in her home, and
 1	both husband and wife became members of a Christian
  	Science church. 
 3	    This testimony was like a message from heaven to me. 
  	I had received many benefits from the study of Science
  	and Health, but it had never dawned upon my darkened
 6	consciousness till then how wonderful our God is. I
  	knew what had taken place in that home could take place
  	in my unhappy home where there was neither rest nor
 9	peace. 
  	    I hopefully took up my cross, and step by step my
  	burden grew lighter, as I journeyed along, realizing the
12	presence of the Christ, Truth, that indeed makes us
  	free. Not all at once did any outward change appear,
  	but at the end of three years all was peace, all the
15	members of the family attending church together and
  	realizing that there is but one Mind. — E. J. B., Supe-
  	rior, Wis. 
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