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E. L. B

  	                               A PROFITABLE STUDY 

18	    It may help others to know that some one was really
  	healed of severe illness through Christian Science. It
  	is over nine years since we first became interested in
21	the Science, and it would be hard to find a healthier
  	person than I am now. I can go all day, from morn-
  	ing till night, upheld by the thought that "they that
24	wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." I
  	can truly say that I scarcely know what physical weari-
  	ness is any more. Before I came into Science the
27	physicians said that one lung was gone, and that the
  	other was affected with tuberculosis; so, from their
  	standpoint, there was little left for me to hope for. We
30	had tried every remedy that they had suggested. I had
 1	gone to the mountains, but could not stay there on account
  	of the altitude; and when they did not know what else
 3	to do, they said we would better go to England — that
  	the ocean air would be beneficial. So we spent three
  	months in the British Isles, and when I came back I
 6	seemed much better, but this only lasted a short time. 
  	In little more than a month I was worse than ever, and
  	my mother was told that I had but a few weeks, or at
 9	most months, to live. 
  	    At that time, a lady, a stranger to us, suggested that
  	we try Christian Science. There was no prejudice against
12	it, as we did not even know what it was. We knew of
  	no Scientists ...in the Western town where we were living,
  	and when we were told that we could send to Kansas City
15	for absent treatment, we thought it was absurd. We were
  	then told that many people had been healed through the
  	reading of the Christian Science textbook, Science and
18	Health, and to us this seemed a little worse than the
  	absent treatment, but as we had tried everything we
  	had heard of up to that time, my mother sent for the
21	book. 
  	    It came in the middle of October and we began to read
  	it together. It seemed to me from the first that it was
24	something I had always believed, but did not know how
  	to express — it seemed such a natural thing. My im-
  	provement was very gradual, but I felt I was recovering. 
27	After the Christmas holidays I started in at school and
  	went the whole term without missing a day, — some-
  	thing I had never done before. I finished my school
30	course without missing a day — in fact, I have not spent
  	a day in bed since that time. I feel absolutely certain
  	that I have two sound, healthy lungs now. The hollows 
 1	in my chest have filled out, and I breathe perfectly on both
  	sides; rarely have a cold to meet, and have not a sign of
 3	a cough. 
  	    People sometimes say, "Oh, well, maybe you never had
  	consumption." Well, I had all the symptoms, and they
 6	are every one gone through the reading of Science and
  	Health. — E. L. B., Chicago, Ill. 
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