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A. C. L

  	                              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. 
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