0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Healings Category: Book Beg Pg#: 641 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Beg Line#: 15 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. End Pg#: 642 Section: Key to Scriptures End Line#: 20 Chapter: Fruitage Total Pgs: 2 Article #: 35 View/Download: available later Article Title: Kidney, opiate, surgery avoided - Relief from Intense Suffering Year: 1970 Topics: Kidney disease healed Tags: opiate, kidney disease, surgical operation avoided Description: S. H. L Text Content: 15 RELIEF FROM INTENSE SUFFERING I became interested in Christian Science in 1901. For four or five years I had suffered with severe attacks which 18 nothing but an opiate seemed to relieve. After one which I think was the worst I ever had, I consulted our family physician, who diagnosed my case as a dangerous 21 kidney disease and said that no medicine could help me but that I must undergo a surgical operation. I con- tinued to grow worse and went to see the physician again, 24 and he advised me to consult a doctor who was connected with the city hospital of Augusta. This doctor made an examination and diagnosed the difficulty as some- 27 thing different but quite as serious. Meanwhile a friend offered me a copy of Science and Health. I said I did not care to read the book, but she was so urgent that I 30 finally promised to do so. I received the book on Satur- 1 day, and on Sunday morning I sat down to read it. When I reached the place where Mrs. Eddy says she found this 3 truth in the Bible, I began comparing the two books. I read passages which looked very reasonable to me, and said to myself, This is nearer to the truth than any- 6 thing I have ever seen. I continued to read all day, stopping only long enough to eat my dinner. As I read on, everything became clearer to me, and I felt that I 9 was healed. During the evening a neighbor came in, and I said, "I am healed..., and that book has healed me." I read on and was certainly healed. Eight days after 12 my healing I did my own washing. This occurred in February, 1901. About six weeks after, I was called to care for my mother, who was under the care of my 15 former physician. I again let him examine my side, as he wished to see if the trouble was still there. He said, "It is certainly gone." I said to him, "Doctor, 18 you told me I would never be a well woman unless I was operated upon; what has healed me?" He replied, "God has healed you." — S. H. L., North Pittston, Me. Read more