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21	              AN EXPRESSION OF LOVING GRATITUDE 

  	    In the spring of 1893, while studying for the minis-
  	try, Science and Health was placed in my hands, and
24	the truth contained therein at once became to me the
  	pearl of great price. I literally devoured the book,
  	reading it about eighteen hours a day. Its originality
27	was startling, upsetting my preconceived opinions of
  	God, man, and creation. Two sentences especially
  	appealed to me: "The foundation of mortal discord is a
30	false sense of man's origin" (p. 262), and, "For right
 1	reasoning, there should be but one fact before the thought,
  	namely, spiritual existence" (p. 492). I had found the
 3	keynote to the Science of being as taught in this marvel-
  	lous book, and persevered until a glimpse of the new heav-
  	ens and new earth came, for the old were passing away. 
 6	With this spiritual uplifting came also physical health. 
  	    All my life had been spent in semi-invalidism, and
  	I seemed destined to a life of suffering. In three
 9	weeks after beginning Science and Health, to my joy-
  	ful surprise I found myself a well man, sound physi-
  	cally, and uplifted spiritually. Life was being lived
12	from a new basis, the old things of personal sense
  	were passing away and all things becoming new. I
  	learned that the infinite good is the one Friend upon
15	whom we can call at all times, an all-powerful, ever-
  	present help in every time of trouble; that ...His children
  	are really governed in peace and harmony by spiritual
18	law, and as the right understanding of it is gained, the
  	other things soon follow, bringing a peace the human
  	concept can never know. 
21	    For the last twelve years my whole time has been
  	devoted to Christian Science practice, and I have seen
  	nearly every so-called incurable disease healed by its
24	beneficent influence. God bless our dear Leader! She
  	has set before us an open door, which no man can shut,
  	and it is but a question of time when the world will know
27	her better and love her more. — E. E. N., Washington,
  	D. C. 
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