0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Healings Category: Book Beg Pg#: 686 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Beg Line#: 0 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. End Pg#: 686 Section: Key to Scriptures End Line#: 0 Chapter: Fruitage Total Pgs: 1 Article #: 431 View/Download: available later Article Title: constipation for 30 years healed Year: 1970 Topics: Tags: Description: Text Content: HEALED PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY I had been taking medicine continually for many 12 years. Finally I was taken suddenly ill and could not leave my room for about two months, then I went away for three months, thinking that I should come back 15 and be able to continue my work. I improved very much, but the fear of quick consumption was with my doctor and my family and friends, and I was warned about the 18 coming winter. Only too soon the fear manifested itself. I had worked just three weeks when all the pains and aches returned, and I had to go to bed as soon as I 21 got home, so there was no pleasure in living. My em- ployer advised me to see my physician, and said perhaps I should not work that winter. I then and there turned 24 to Christian Science. I could not afford to give up work and live away from home, neither did I want to depend on doctors and medicine any longer. I took the book 27 and read it on my way to work, and at noon I lay down on a couch instead of going out for luncheon and fell asleep. When I awoke I was a different person, all 30 pains and aches had gone, and I was free. I was so 1 happy I could hardly contain myself; to material sense it was wonderful. As I walked I kept saying, 3 "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," and tried to un- derstand "the scientific statement of being" by repeat- ing portions at a time, then pondering over them. I 6 read the ...book four times in succession, and every time I found more and more to aid in the under- standing. 9 This healing was in October, 1901, with no other help than Science and Health, and soon I was relieved of other chronic ailments. In February I was able to 12 put away eyeglasses, which I had worn ten years and a half for astigmatism. Oculists told me I would always have to wear them. A month later my father asked 15 me to help him, as he was suffering so much from con- stipation, dyspepsia, and neuralgia. He had been sub- sisting on bran, nearly starving himself until he was most 18 miserable, and his limbs seemed so cold that they were kept wrapped in blankets. I felt very humble as he asked me, and told him I would have a practitioner help 21 him, as I had never treated any one; but he would not consent to have any one but myself, and I finally told him I would try, but that he must not hold Science respon- 24 sible if he were not benefited, for my lack of understand- ing, and not Science, would be at fault. At my request he read Science and Health, ate whatever he wanted, 27 and used no medicine in any form. After two treat- ments I received word from him that he was healed of that bondage of thirty years' standing. In view of 30 all these signs which followed my acceptance of Chris- tian Science, I knew it must be true. — R. L. A., Chicago, Ill. Read more