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  	                                 A NEW LIFE GAINED 

12	    Leaving home when a young man, I carried with me
  	a protection against the temptation of a great city, — a
  	mother's prayers and a small Bible. For a time I read
15	the Bible and prayed, but without understanding. This
  	did not suffice, and evil seemed to gain the victory. I
  	soon omitted to read my Bible; forgot to go to God in
18	prayer for guidance and help, and looked to the world
  	for that which it never has and never can give, — health,
  	peace, and joy. 
21	    Thus, years later, when Christian Science came into
  	my home, it found me prayerless, churchless, godless;
  	a home discordant, and with no thought or knowledge
24	of spiritual things. Up to this time, my wife had for
  	years been seeking health through the physicians,
  	but without success, and as a last resort had been
27	sent to Christian Science. The help received was so
  	wonderful that I commenced the study of Science and
  	Health. The first effect which I realized from the
30	reading of our textbook, was a great love for the Bible
  	and a desire to read it, something which I had not done
 1	for years. I went in silent prayer to God, that I might
  	see the light and truth which would enable me to be-
 3	come a better man. "Ye must be born again." Thus
  	again, and as a child, was I taught to pray "the effectual
  	fervent prayer" which "availeth much." In a few
 6	weeks' study of Science and H...ealth together with the
  	Bible, and without other help, I was healed of a desire
  	for liquor, of years' standing, and of the use of tobacco. 
 9	Ten years have passed and these appetites have never
  	returned. I have never used either liquor or tobacco
  	in any form from that time to the present. Surely this
12	Scripture is fulfilled in our home: "Old things are passed
  	away; behold, all things are become new." How can
  	we estimate the value of a book, the study of which brings
15	such transformation and regeneration? Only as we
  	endeavor to live, and strive to practise what it teaches,
  	can we begin to pay our debt to God, and to her whom
18	He has sent to make plain to human understanding the
  	life and teaching of Christ Jesus. — W. H. P., Boston,
  	Mass. 
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