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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
653
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
653
Key to Scriptures
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Fruitage
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organs diseased healed
1970


    

  	                     GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS 

 9	    In 1894 I began the study of Christian Science. At
  	that time I was greatly in need of its healing truth. 
  	For a number of years previous I had been a semi-
12	invalid with no hope of ever being well and strong
  	again. Several years before this time I had undergone
  	an operation which resulted in peritonitis. For three
15	years previous to my study of Science and Health
  	by Mrs. Eddy, I was scarcely ever free from headache
  	caused by the weakened and diseased condition of the
18	internal organs. At the time I began the study of
  	Christian Science I was taking five kinds of medicine. 
  	    I began to read Science and Health, and did not
21	take treatment, for I thought, "If this is truth, I shall
  	be healed; if it is not, I shall be able to detect it,
  	and will have nothing to do with it." I became a
24	devoted student and gradually my bodily diseases left
  	me, — I was free, and since that time, nearly ten
  	years ago, neither my two children nor myself have
27	taken any medicine; and our understanding of truth
  	has been able to meet and overcome any suggestion of
  	illness. 
30	    I was a devoted member of an orthodox church,
 1	but as I grew older I began to question my beliefs,
  	and to my questions I could find no satisfactory an-
 3	swer. I became dissatisfied and finally ceased attend-
  	ing church. I could not accept the idea of God taught
  	there, a...
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