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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
657
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
657
Key to Scriptures
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Fruitage
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270
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eyesight restored healed
1970


    

12	                    SEVERE EYE TROUBLE OVERCOME 

  	    After hearing Christian Science lightly spoken of,
  	from a Christian pulpit, I decided to go to one of the
15	services and hear for myself. From infancy I had
  	been devoted to my church, and as soon as I was old
  	enough I was ever active in the work. Feeling it to
18	be my duty to attend every service held in my own
  	church, I took advantage of the Wednesday evening
  	meetings. My first visit was not my last, I am thank-
21	ful to say, for I saw immediately that these people
  	not only preached Christianity, but practised and lived
  	it. At that time I was wearing glasses and had worn
24	them for sixteen years. At times I suffered the most
  	intense pain, and for this phase of the trouble, one
  	specialist after another had been consulted. All gave
27	me very much the same advice; each one urged ex-
  	treme carefulness and gave me glasses that seemed to
  	relieve for a time. None of them held out any hope
30	that my sight would ever be restored, saying that the
 1	defect had existed since infancy, and that in time I should
  	be blind. 
 3	    The thought of blindness was very distressing to me,
  	but I tried to bear it with Christian resignation, since
  	I thought that God had seen fit to afflict me; but since
 6	I have learned that He is a loving Father, who gives
  	only good, I regret that I ever charged Him with my
  	affliction. I had no treatment, but I read Science ...
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