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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
631
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
631
Key to Scriptures
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Fruitage
1
160
available later
invalid healed
1970


    

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 ...
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