0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Healings Category: Book Beg Pg#: 637 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Beg Line#: 0 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. End Pg#: 637 Section: Key to Scriptures End Line#: 0 Chapter: Fruitage Total Pgs: 1 Article #: 183 View/Download: available later Article Title: kidney healed Year: 1970 Topics: Tags: Description: Text Content: 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. Read more