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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
643
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
643
Key to Scriptures
0
Fruitage
1
201
available later
alcohol healed
1970


    

  	     GRATEFUL FOR MORAL AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING 

  	    About four years ago, after I had tried different ways
30	and means to be relieved from bodily suffering, a faith-
 1	ful friend called my attention to the teaching of Chris-
  	tian Science. After some opposition, I decided to in-
 3	vestigate it, with the thought that if this teaching would
  	be helpful, it was meant for me as well as for others; if
  	it did not afford any help, I could put it aside again, but
 6	that I would find out and be convinced. 
  	    After I had read Mrs. Eddy's work, Science and Health,
  	a few days, I found that my ailments had disappeared,
 9	and a rest had come to me which I had never before known. 
  	I had smoked almost incessantly, although I had often
  	determined to use my will power and never smoke again,
12	but had always failed. This desire as well as the de-
  	sire for drink simply disappeared, and I wish to say here,
  	that I received all these benefits before I had gained much
15	understanding of what I was reading. Like a prisoner,
  	who had been in chains for years, I was suddenly set free. 
  	I did not then know how the chain had been removed,
18	but I had to acknowledge that it came through the reading
  	of this book. I then felt an ardent desire to read more,
  	and to know what this power was that had freed me
21	in a few days of that which I had been trying for years
  	to shake off and had failed. It then became clear to
  	me that...
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