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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
673
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
673
Key to Scriptures
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Fruitage
1
360
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flesh wounds healed
1970


    

                                      AN EVER-PRESENT HELP FOUND 

24	    On the 23rd of March, 1900, I received from one of my
  	daughters a copy of Science and Health on my seventy-first
  	birthday. Although a constant reader of all kinds of papers
27	and books, I had never heard anything of Christian Sci-
  	ence, except a short notice that spring in a San Francisco
  	newspaper, from an orthodox clergyman, referring to the
30	Christian Science people in not very complimentary style. 
 1	    In Mrs. Eddy's book I came across a great deal of
  	thought that was not readily understood at the first read-
 3	ing, but by continued and careful study, and a good deal
  	of help from my knowledge of chemistry and natu-
  	ral philosophy, I soon shook off the belief of sensation
 6	in matter, — the so-called elementary substance. One
  	afternoon I put the belt on my circular saw to cut blocks
  	of firewood and also to split a small stick of frame tim-
 9	ber. In doing this the stick closed and pinched the saw. 
  	I picked up a small wooden wedge and tried to drive
  	it into the saw kerf, but a bit of ice let the stick on to the
12	back of the saw and instantly it flew, with heavy force,
  	into my face, and bouncing off my left cheek fell about
  	twenty feet off on the snow. The blood spattered on the
15	snow next the saw table, and on feeling with my hand
  	there were two wounds, one on the lock of the jaw and
  	another forward, as big as a doll...
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