0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Healings Category: Book Beg Pg#: 691 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Beg Line#: 0 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. End Pg#: 691 Section: Key to Scriptures End Line#: 0 Chapter: Fruitage Total Pgs: 1 Article #: 450 View/Download: available later Article Title: coughing for 6 years healed Year: 1970 Topics: Tags: Description: Text Content: A HELPFUL TESTIMONY 18 Words cannot express my gratitude to God for Christian Science. When I first read Science and Health, I had tried every remedy I had ever heard of. 21 I felt no change in mind or body that I was conscious of until I read page 16 of the chapter on "Prayer," in Science and Health. The first words of the "spiritual 24 sense of the Lord's Prayer," telling of our Father- Mother God, gave me a glimpse of heavenly light. I stopped and reasoned, and remembered the teachings 27 of Jesus. The truth of man's spiritual being dawned on my consciousness. I realized I was not subject to mortal laws, as I had been taught all my life. I could 30 not explain how I knew this, but I knew it. Through Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy had given me what 1 I had longed for all my life, — a Mother, a perfect "Father-Mother God." I had known there was a 3 great lack, and at that time I believe the orthodox world had but half of the truth which Jesus came to establish. When I read, "Give us this day our daily 6 bread," and its spiritual interpretation, my tears began to flow; all the years of bitterness, hate, and fear melted away. I knew then, as I know now, that nothing satisfies 9 but Love. That day began the outward and inward conscious healing, — mental and physical. There never came a doubt! I absolutely knew that Christian Science 12 was and is the truth. Mo...ney, friends, materiality, are nothing beside the conscious knowledge of God, man, and the universe. 15 I did not need treatment from any one, — Science and Health was so clear and beautiful. I could not understand the Bible before, but I found it illumined 18 now that I had a little understanding of Christian Science. For ten years I have not had to lie down in the daytime from any sickness. I am now, and have 21 been all these years, the picture of perfect health. When I first read Science and Health I weighed one hundred and four pounds; I now weigh over one hun- 24 dred and sixty. This physical health is not to be com- pared to my happiness, — my harmony that nothing can take away, — because it is the gift of God. Nothing 27 has shown me the perversity of the human mind more than in its conclusions in regard to my healing. Even when I felt and knew that I was healed, people con- 30 stantly said, because I was thin and delicate looking, "You are not well, any one could look at you and know it." Now that I am fleshy, they say, "You don't look 1 as if you ever had a pain in all your life. You could not have had consumption." 3 When I think what my life was before I had Christian Science, of the six years of colds, suffering, and cough- ing, not to mention the unhappiness, I want to "work, 6 watch, and pray" for the Mind of Christ, that I may work rightly in God's vineyard, and to know that in truth, what belongs to one belongs to all, — that one God, one Life, 9 Truth, and Love is all. — A. C. L., Kansas City, Kans. Read more