1 CURING BETTER THAN ENDURING
For eight years I was a great sufferer from weak
3 lungs and after being treated by ten different physi-
cians, in the States of Illinois, Missouri, and Colo-
rado, I was told there was no hope of my recovery
6 from what they pronounced tuberculosis, which was
hereditary, my father having been afflicted with it. I
was greatly emaciated and hardly able to be about.
9 My general condition was aggravated by what the doc-
tors said was paralysis of the bowels. Three physi-
cians so diagnosed it at different times, and assured
12 my husband that I could never get more than tem-
porary relief. This indeed I found difficult to obtain,
in spite of my almost frantic efforts. At times I was
15 nearly insane from suffering, and after eight years of
doctoring I found myself steadily growing worse. For
four years I did not have a normal action of the bowels,
18 and it was only by extreme effort and by resort to pow-
erful drugs or mechanical means, with resultant suffering,
that any action whatever could be brought about.
21 I had heard nothing of the curative power of Chris-
tian Science, and only to oblige a friend I went one
night, about three years ago, to one of their mid-week
24 testimonial meetings, in Boulder, Colorado. I was much
impressed by what I heard there, and determined at once
to investigate this strange religion, in the hope that ...it
27 might have something good for me. I bought the text-
book, Science and Health, and from the first I found
myself growing stronger and better, both physically and
30 mentally, as I acquired a better understanding and en-
deavored to put into practice what I learned. In one week
1 I was able to get along better without drugs than I had for
years with them, and before three months had passed I
3 was better than I had been any time in my life, for I
had always suffered more or less from bowel trouble.
Since that time I have taken no medicine whatever, and
6 rely wholly upon Christian Science. My lungs are now
sound, my bowels normally active, my general health
excellent, and I am able to endure without fatigue
9 tasks that before would have prostrated me. The
study of our textbook was the sole means of my healing.
— L. M. St. C., Matachin, Canal Zone, Panama.
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