0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Healings Category: Book Beg Pg#: 653 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Beg Line#: 0 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. End Pg#: 653 Section: Key to Scriptures End Line#: 0 Chapter: Fruitage Total Pgs: 1 Article #: 247 View/Download: available later Article Title: throat sore healed Year: 1970 Topics: Tags: Description: Text Content: 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...nd at last my friends looked sadly upon me as 6 an atheist. There I stood until I learned to know God as revealed in Science and Health, and then all my questionings were answered. In my girlhood I had 9 always prayed to the God I held in mind, and when the shadows of sickness, pain, and death came to my family, I prayed as only those can who know that if 12 He helps not, there is none; but my prayers were unanswered. Then I closed my Bible, saying, "There is a mistake somewhere, perhaps some time I may 15 know." Only those who know the attitude of mind that I was in can understand the joy that came to me as I 18 began to learn of God in Christian Science, and of my relation to Him. Many proofs of the healing power of Truth and of 21 His protecting care throng my thoughts. Seven years ago, when we were in a far distant country, where Christian Science was then unknown, my little daughter 24 came in one morning from her school, saying, "Mother, I have measles; twenty of the girls are sick in bed and I am afraid they will put me there also." Her face, hands, 27 and chest were covered with a deep red rash, throat sore, and eyes inflamed. We began immediately to do our work in Science and at night, when I left her at the door of the 30 college, her face was clear, her eyes bright, and all fear destroyed. That was the end of the disease. — F. M. P., Boston, Mass. Read more