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  	                     GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS 

 9	    In 1894 I began the study of Christian Science. At
  	that time I was greatly in need of its healing truth. 
  	For a number of years previous I had been a semi-
12	invalid with no hope of ever being well and strong
  	again. Several years before this time I had undergone
  	an operation which resulted in peritonitis. For three
15	years previous to my study of Science and Health
  	by Mrs. Eddy, I was scarcely ever free from headache
  	caused by the weakened and diseased condition of the
18	internal organs. At the time I began the study of
  	Christian Science I was taking five kinds of medicine. 
  	    I began to read Science and Health, and did not
21	take treatment, for I thought, "If this is truth, I shall
  	be healed; if it is not, I shall be able to detect it,
  	and will have nothing to do with it." I became a
24	devoted student and gradually my bodily diseases left
  	me, — I was free, and since that time, nearly ten
  	years ago, neither my two children nor myself have
27	taken any medicine; and our understanding of truth
  	has been able to meet and overcome any suggestion of
  	illness. 
30	    I was a devoted member of an orthodox church,
 1	but as I grew older I began to question my beliefs,
  	and to my questions I could find no satisfactory an-
 3	swer. I became dissatisfied and finally ceased attend-
  	ing church. I could not accept the idea of God taught
  	there, a...nd at last my friends looked sadly upon me as
 6	an atheist. There I stood until I learned to know God
  	as revealed in Science and Health, and then all my
  	questionings were answered. In my girlhood I had
 9	always prayed to the God I held in mind, and when
  	the shadows of sickness, pain, and death came to my
  	family, I prayed as only those can who know that if
12	He helps not, there is none; but my prayers were
  	unanswered. Then I closed my Bible, saying, "There
  	is a mistake somewhere, perhaps some time I may
15	know." 
  	    Only those who know the attitude of mind that I
  	was in can understand the joy that came to me as I
18	began to learn of God in Christian Science, and of my
  	relation to Him. 
  	    Many proofs of the healing power of Truth and of
21	His protecting care throng my thoughts. Seven years
  	ago, when we were in a far distant country, where
  	Christian Science was then unknown, my little daughter
24	came in one morning from her school, saying, "Mother,
  	I have measles; twenty of the girls are sick in bed and I
  	am afraid they will put me there also." Her face, hands,
27	and chest were covered with a deep red rash, throat sore,
  	and eyes inflamed. We began immediately to do our work
  	in Science and at night, when I left her at the door of the
30	college, her face was clear, her eyes bright, and all fear
  	destroyed. That was the end of the disease. — F. M. P.,
  	Boston, Mass. 
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