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Mary Baker Eddy

Healings

Book
612
1875 & 1910 Textbooks
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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.
612
Key to Scriptures
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Fruitage
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90
available later
incurable gastric catarrh healed
1970


    

 3	                                A REMARKABLE CASE 

  	    Nine years ago my only child was hovering between
  	life and death. Some of the best physicians in Boston
 6	had pronounced his case incurable, saying that if he
  	lived he would always be an invalid and a cripple. One
  	of the diseases was gastric catarrh. He was allowed
 9	to eat but very few things, and even after taking every
  	precaution, he suffered to the extent that he would
  	lie in spasms for half a day. He also had rickets; physi-
12	cians saying that there was not a natural bone in his
  	body. 
  	    It was while he was in what seemed to be his greatest
15	agony, and when I was in the darkest despair, that I
  	first heard of Christian Science. The bearer of the joyful
  	tidings could only tell me to come and hear of the wonder-
18	ful things that Christian Science was doing. I accepted
  	the invitation, for I was willing to try anything to save
  	my child, and the following Friday evening I attended
21	my first meeting, which was in The Mother Church of
  	Christ, Scientist. Long before the service began every
  	seat was filled, which was amazing to me, being an ordi-
24	nary weekly meeting, and that night I realized from the
  	testimonies given that Christian Science was the religion
  	for which I had been searching for years. The next
27	day I went to find a practitioner, but was unable to get
  	the one who had been recommended, he being too busy. 
  	On my wa...
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