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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
694
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
21
Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
695
Key to Scriptures
28
Fruitage
2
79
available later
Semi-invalidism and suffering healed - An Expression of Loving Gratitude
1970

Semi-invalidism and suffering healed.
Matthew 13:45 & 46, preconceived opinions, Isaiah 65:17; 66:22 & I Peter 3:13, The one Friend, incurable diseases healed

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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 ...
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