0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Healings Category: Book Beg Pg#: 628 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Beg Line#: 27 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. End Pg#: 630 Section: Key to Scriptures End Line#: 27 Chapter: Fruitage Total Pgs: 3 Article #: 26 View/Download: available later Article Title: Stomach, spiritual understanding - Obstinate Stomach Trouble Healed Year: 1970 Topics: Stomach trouble healed Tags: human theories, good and evil, Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:5, Lord’s Prayer, stomach trouble, following Christ Description: H. T Text Content: 27 OBSTINATE STOMACH TROUBLE HEALED There is no doubt that by far the greater number come to Christian Science by the way of physical healing, but 1 there are those to whom this does not particularly appeal. In the hope that it may be of benefit to some such, and in 3 gratitude for help received, I submit my own experience. Three years ago I knew nothing of Christian Science, aside from the knowledge gathered from the daily papers and 6 current literature. When I thought of the subject at all, it was to class Christian Science with various human the- ories with which I could not be in sympathy, for they 9 seemed to rely upon both good and evil. I had never known of a case of healing, had never read the textbook or heard of the Journal or Sentinel, but I would sometimes 12 see people going into the Christian Science church. I was tired of trying to find anything satisfactory in religious belief, for it seemed as if God either could not or would 15 not bring into harmony the terrible conditions existing in human society. I had quit using any form of prayer ex- cept the Lord's Prayer, and even then omitted the words 18 "lead us not into temptation." How I longed to know just a little of the "why?" and "wherefore?" of it all. Here is where Christian Science found me. I was 21 thrown in contact with a dear friend of whom I had seen very little for a year or more, a thoroughly... educated woman and a thinker. She told me she had taken some treatments 24 in Christian Science for a physical trouble, and had be- come very much interested in the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. She 27 asked me if I would like to look at the book, and I said I would be glad to do so. The first chapter, "Prayer," appealed to me from the first, and when I came to Mrs. 30 Eddy's spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer (Science and Health, p. 17), my interest was fully aroused. I knew that in a dim way I was learning what it means to "pray 1 without ceasing." Very soon I bought a book of my own, and with the help of our Lesson-Sermons, as given in the 3 Quarterly, I began in earnest the study of Science and Health, in connection with the Bible. I stood very much in need of physical healing at this 6 time, having suffered for several years from an obstinate form of stomach trouble. So far as I know, I gave no thought to the benefits I might derive physically from the 9 study, but I did believe this Science held the truth of things, and I was so absorbed in getting an understanding of the Principle that I thought very little of myself. After about 12 three or four months' study I realized that the stomach trouble was gone, and with it went other physical troubles, which have never returned. This healing was brought 15 about by the earnest, conscientious seeking for the truth, as contained in the Bible and interpreted by our Leader in our textbook, Science and Health. I have since learned 18 more of the Science of healing and have been able in a small way to help others in need. I have also learned that in living and loving is healing realized, and in reflect- 21 ing divine Love I have the "signs following." When we think of the pure, loving, unselfish life Mrs. Eddy must have lived in order to become conscious of this 24 truth and give it to us, words are a poor medium through which to express the gratitude which her followers feel for her. It is best expressed by obediently following her, even 27 as she is following Christ. — H. T., Omaha, Neb.Read more