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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
637
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
0
Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
637
Key to Scriptures
0
Fruitage
1
185
available later
suicidal tendencies healed
1970


    

  	                    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...
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