0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Healings Category: Book Beg Pg#: 676 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Beg Line#: 0 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. End Pg#: 676 Section: Key to Scriptures End Line#: 0 Chapter: Fruitage Total Pgs: 1 Article #: 370 View/Download: available later Article Title: transformation gained Year: 1970 Topics: Tags: Description: Text Content: 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. Read more