0.0 – Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy Chapter 18 – Fruitage – 1910 Edition

To complete the book is chapter eighteen, FRUITAGE. This is what we are all interested in, for “by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matt 7:20). The chapter contains letters from individuals who have been healed of all sorts of complaints, mostly physical, by the reading of the book. Here we return to the initial point of wholeness: we experience health restored as we accept the book as a whole. The book concludes therefore with evidence of the fact that  it is a self-fruiting book, a self-demonstrating textbook.
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  	Fruitage 

  	Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. — Jesus. 

  	That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,
  	being fruitful in every good work,
  	and increasing in the knowledge of God. — Paul. 

  	Let us get up early to the vineyards;
  	let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear,
  	and the pomegranates bud forth. — Solomon's Song. 

 1	    Thousands of letters could be presented in testi-
  	mony of the healing efficacy of Christian Science and
 3	particularly concerning the vast number of people who
   	have been reformed and healed through the perusal or
  	study of this book. 
 6	    For the assurance and encouragement of the reader, a
  	few of these letters are here republished from THE CHRIS-
  	TIAN SCIENCE JOURNAL and CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTI-
 9	NEL. The originals are in the possession of the Editor,
  	who can authenticate the testimonials which follow. 

  	RHEUMATISM HEALED 

12	    I was a great sufferer from a serious form of rheumatic
  	trouble, my hands being affected to such an extent that it
  	was impossible for me even to dress without assistance. 
15	The trouble finally reached the knees, and I became very
  	lame and had to be assisted in and out of bed. I went
  	to the different health resorts for the benefit I hoped to
18	derive from the baths and waters that were prescribed by
 
      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   601

 1	physicians, but found no permanent relief. I was placed
  	under an X-ray examination, and was told that the joints
 3	were becoming ossified. I then consulted a celebrated
  	specialist, who after a thorough examination said my
  	condition would continue to grow worse and that I would
 6	become completely helpless. 
  	    At that time a copy of "Science and Health with Key to
  	the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy was loaned me. I read it
 9	more from curiosity than with the thought of any physical
  	benefit. As the truth was unfolded to me, I realized that
  	the mental condition was what needed correcting, and
12	that the Spirit of truth which inspired this book was my
  	physician. My healing is complete, and the liberation in
  	thought is manifest in a life of active usefulness rather
15	than the bondage of helpless invalidism and suffering. I
  	owe to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, gratitude which
  	words cannot express. Her revelation of the practical
18	rather than the merely theoretical application of Jesus'
  	words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
  	make you free," proved to be my redeemer. I did not
21	even have to apply to a practitioner, but am most grate-
  	ful for the helpful words of loving friends. — E. B. B.,
  	Pasadena, Cal. 

24	ASTIGMATISM AND HERNIA HEALED 

  	    It is nearly five years since I bought my first copy of
  	Science and Health, the reading of which cured me of
27	chronic constipation, nervous headache, astigmatism, and
  	hernia, in less than four months. 
  	    Where would I be now, had not this blessed truth been
30	brought to me by much persuasion of a very dear friend? 
 
      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   602

 1	I certainly should have been deep in the slough of despond,
  	if not in the grave. Am I truly thankful for all the good
 3	that has come to me and mine? I try to let my works
  	testify of that; but to those whom I do not meet in person,
  	I can truly say, Yes; I am indeed more thankful than
 6	words can express for the glorious healing that has come
  	to me, both physical, mental, and moral, and I also con-
  	vey herein, my song of gratitude to the dear Leader who
 9	has through her fidelity to Truth enabled me to touch
  	at least the hem of Christ's garment. — B. S. J., Sioux
  	City, Iowa. 

12	SUBSTANCE OF LUNGS RESTORED 

  	    It was about fifteen years ago that Christian Science
  	first came to my notice. At that time I had been a chronic
15	invalid for a good many years. I had acute bowel
  	trouble, bronchitis, and a number of other troubles. One
  	physician had told me that my lungs were like wet paper,
18	ready to tear at any time, and I was filled with fear, as
  	my mother, two brothers, and a sister had been vic-
  	tims of consumption. I tried many physicians and
21	every material remedy that promised help, but no help
  	came until I found a copy of Mrs. Eddy's book, Sci-
  	ence and Health. The book was placed in my hands
24	by one who did not then appreciate it, and I was told
  	that it would be hard for me to understand it. I com-
  	menced reading it with this thought, but I caught beau-
27	tiful glimpses of Truth, which took away my fear and
  	healed me of all those diseases, and they have never
  	returned. 
30	    I would also like to tell how I was healed of a sprained
 
      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   603

 1	ankle. The accident occurred in the morning, and all
  	that day and during the night I gave myself Christian
 3	Science treatment, as best I could. The next morning
  	it seemed to be no better, being very sore, badly swollen,
  	and much discolored. Feeling that I had done all I could,
 6	I decided to stop thinking about it. I took my copy of
  	Science and Health and began reading. Very soon I
  	became so absorbed in the book that I forgot all about
 9	my ankle; it went entirely out of my thought, for I had
  	a glimpse of all God's creation as spiritual, and for the
  	time being lost sight of my material selfhood. After two
12	hours I laid the book down and walked into another room. 
  	When next I thought of my ankle, I found it was not hurt-
  	ing me. The swelling had gone down, the black and blue
15	appearance had nearly vanished, and it was perfectly well. 
  	It was healed while I was "absent from the body" and
  	"present with the Lord." This experience was worth
18	a great deal to me, for it showed me how the healing is
  	done. — C. H., Portland, Ore. 

  	FIBROID TUMOR HEALED IN A FEW DAYS 

21	    My gratitude for Christian Science is boundless. I
  	was afflicted with a fibroid tumor which weighed not
  	less than fifty pounds, attended by a continuous hem-
24	orrhage for eleven years. The tumor was a growth of
  	eighteen years. 
  	    I lived in Fort Worth, Tex., and I had never heard
27	of Christian Science before leaving there for Chicago
  	in the year 1887. I had tried to live near to God, and
  	I feel sure He guided me in all my steps to this heal-
30	ing and saving truth. After being there several weeks
 
      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   604

 1	I received letters from a Texas lady who had herself been
  	healed, and who wrote urging me to try Christian
 3	Science. 
  	    Changing my boarding-place, I met a lady who owned
  	a copy of Science and Health, and in speaking to her of
 6	having seen the book, she informed me she had one, and
  	she got it and told me I could read it. The revelation
  	was marvellous and brought a great spiritual awakening. 
 9	This awakened sense never left me, and one day when
  	walking alone it came to me very suddenly that I was
  	healed, and I walked the faster declaring every step that
12	I was healed. When I reached my boarding-place, I
  	found my hostess and told her I was healed. She looked
  	the picture of amazement. The tumor began to disap-
15	pear at once, the hemorrhage ceased, and perfect strength
  	was manifest. 
  	    There was no joy ever greater than mine for this Christ-
18	cure, for I was very weary and heavy laden. I thought
  	very little of either sleeping or eating, and my heart was
  	filled with gratitude, since I knew I had touched the hem
21	of his garment. 
  	    I must add that the reading of Science and Health, and
  	that alone, healed me, and it was the second copy I ever
24	saw. — S. L., Fort Worth, Tex. 

  	SPINAL TROUBLE AND INDIGESTION HEALED 

  	    For many years I have relied wholly upon Christian
27	Science for healing; and I am glad to acknowledge the
  	spiritual help and many other benefits received from
  	following its teachings. I have great cause to be grate-
30	ful to God and to our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for
  	these blessings, which her discovery and love for
 
      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   605

 1	humanity made possible. I had read but a few pages
  	in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to
 3	the Scriptures," when I saw that it was the truth, and
  	that it contained something I had thought could never
  	be found in this existence. Proofs of healing came
 6	immediately, and I was able to do much useful work
  	without a sense of burden or fatigue. 
  	    As time went on I learned the nothingness of dis-
 9	couragement, and understood in a measure that God is
  	my Life and that all action is in divine Mind. I was
  	healed of spinal trouble; and nervousness and weakness
12	faded away and were replaced by health and strength. 
  	A larger sense of joy and gratitude did much towards
  	overcoming indigestion, which had caused suffering for a
15	number of years. A sprained ankle was cured in a few
  	hours by applying what I understood of Christian
  	Science, and by holding steadfastly to the statement
18	our Leader makes on page 384 of Science and Health,
  	that "God never punishes man for doing right, for
  	honest labor, or for deeds of kindness." The following
21	day I walked two miles with no sense of discomfort. 
  	Beliefs of heredity and lack have been overcome, and
  	self-will, self-love, and pride are less in evidence.
24	 — Miss G. W., Brookline, Mass. 

  	A CASE OF MENTAL SURGERY 

  	    I have felt for some time I should give my experience
27	in mental surgery. In May, 1902, going home for
  	lunch, on a bicycle, and while riding down a hill at a
  	rapid gait, I was thrown from the wheel, and falling
30	on my left side with my arm under my head, the bone
  	was broken about half-way between the shoulder and

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   606

1	elbow. While the pain was intense, I lay still in the dust,
  	declaring the truth and denying that there could
 3	be a break or accident in the realm of divine Love,
  	until a gentleman came to assist me, saying, he
  	thought I had been stunned. I was only two and a
 6	half blocks from home, so I mounted my wheel again
  	and managed to reach it. On arriving there I lay
  	down and asked my little boy to bring me our text-
 9	book. He immediately brought Science and Health,
  	which I read for about ten minutes, when all pain left. 
  	    I said nothing to my family of the accident, but at-
12	tended to some duties and was about half an hour late
  	in returning to the office, this being my only loss of time
  	from work. My friends claimed that the arm had not
15	been broken, as it would have been impossible for me to
  	continue my work without having it set, and carrying it
  	in a sling until the bone knit together. Their insistence
18	almost persuaded me that I might have been mistaken,
  	until one of my friends invited me to visit a physician's
  	office where they were experimenting with an X-ray ma-
21	chine. The physician was asked to examine my left
  	arm to see if it differed from the ordinary. On look-
  	ing through it, he said, "Yes, it has been broken, but
24	whoever set it made a perfect job of it, and you will
  	never have any further trouble from that break." My
  	friend then asked the doctor to show how he could
27	tell where the break had been. The doctor pointed
  	out the place as being slightly thicker at that part,
  	like a piece of steel that had been welded. This
30	was the first of several cases of mental surgery that
  	have come under my notice, and it made a deep
  	impression on me. 
 
      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   607

 1	    For the benefit of others who may have something
  	similar to meet, I will say that I have overcome almost
 3	constant attacks of sick headaches, extending back
  	to my earliest recollection. — L. C. S., Salt Lake City,
  	Utah. 


 6	CATARACT QUICKLY CURED 

  	    I wish to add my testimony to those of others, and
  	hope that it may be the means of bringing some poor
 9	sufferer to health, to happiness, and to God. I was
  	healed through simply reading this wonderful book,
  	Science and Health. I had been troubled periodically
12	for many years with sore eyes, and had been to many
  	doctors, who called the disease iritis and cataract. They
  	told me that my eyes would always give me trouble, and
15	that I would eventually lose my sight if I remained in
  	an office, and advised me to go under an operation. Later
  	on I had to wear glasses at my work, also out of doors
18	as I could not bear the winds, and my eyes were gradually
  	becoming worse. I could not read for longer than a few
  	minutes at a time, otherwise they would smart severely. 
21	I had to rest my eyes each evening to enable me to use
  	them the next day; in fact gas-light was getting unbearable
  	because of the pain, and I made home miserable. A
24	dear brother told me about Christian Science, and said
  	that if I would read Science and Health it would help
  	me. He procured for me the loan of the book. The
27	first night I read it, it so interested me I quite forgot
  	all about my eyes until my wife remarked that it was
  	eleven o'clock. I found that I had been reading this
30	book for nearly four hours, and I remarked immediately
  	after, "I believe my eyes are cured," which was really
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   608


 1	the case. The next day, on looking at my eyes, my wife
  	noticed that the cataract had disappeared. I put away
 3	my outdoor glasses, which I have not required since, and
  	through the understanding gained by studying Christian
  	Science I have been able to do away with my indoor
 6	glasses also, and have had no return of pain in my eyes
  	since. This is now a year and a half ago. — G. F. S.,
  	Liverpool, England. 


 9	VALVULAR HEART DISEASE HEALED 

  	    Fourteen years ago my heart awoke to gratitude to
  	God and the dear Leader at the same time. After a
12	patient and persistent effort of three months' duration, to
  	procure a copy of Science and Health (during which time
  	I had visited every bookstore, and many of the second-
15	hand bookstores in the city of St. Paul), and had failed
  	to find it, I at last remembered that the stranger who told
  	me I might be healed, had mentioned a name, and
18	McVicker's Theatre Building in Chicago as being in
  	some way connected with the work. I sent there for
  	information regarding a book called Health and Science,
21	and the return mail brought me the book, Science and
  	Health, and in it I at once found sure promise of deliver-
  	ance from valvular heart disease, with all the accompani-
24	ments, such as extreme nervousness, weakness, dyspepsia,
  	and insomnia. I had suffered from these all my life,
  	finding no permanent relief, even, in material remedies,
27	and no hope of cure at any time. Only those who have
  	been held in such bondage and have been liberated by
  	the same means, can know the eager joy of the first perusal
30	of that wonderful book. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   609


 1	    Half a day's reading convinced me that I had found
  	the way to holiness and health. I read on, thinking only
 3	of the spiritual enlightenment, content to wait until I
  	should be led to some person who would heal me; but
  	old things had passed away, and all things had become
 6	new. I was completely healed before I had met a Scien-
  	tist, or one who knew anything about Christian Science,
  	and before I had read a line of any other Christian Science
 9	literature except one leaf of a tract; so it is absolutely
  	certain that the healing was entirely impersonal, as was
  	also the teaching, which enabled me to begin at once
12	demonstrating the power of Truth to destroy all forms
  	of error. — E. J. W., North Yakima, Wash. 


  	THE TRUE PHYSICIAN FOUND 

15	    It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I send the
  	particulars of my healing through Christian Science. 
  	While visiting friends in the southwestern part of On-
18	tario, about three years ago, my attention was called
  	to Christian Science and the wonderful healing it was
  	doing. I had lived in New York for twenty-five years,
21	but had never heard of Christian Science before, to my
  	recollection. 
  	    Up to that time, for seventeen years, I had suffered
24	with indigestion and gastritis in the worst form, often
  	being overcome from a seeming pressure against the heart. 
  	I had asthma for four years, also had worn glasses for
27	four years. It seemed to me that I had swallowed every
  	known medicine to relieve my indigestion, but they only
  	gave me temporary benefit. I purchased a copy of Sci-
30	ence and Health, and simply from the reading of that
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   610


 1	grand book I was completely healed of all my physical
  	ailments in two weeks' time. I have used no medi-
 3	cine from that day to this, and with God's help, and
  	the wonderful light revealed to me through the reading
  	of Mrs. Eddy's book, I never expect to again. I used
 6	to smoke eight or ten cigars a day, and also took an
  	occasional drink, but the desire for these has gone, — I
  	feel forever. I travel on the road, and am constantly
 9	being invited to indulge, but it is no effort to abstain,
  	and in many instances I find that my refusal helps
  	others. 
12	    While I fully appreciate the release from my physical
  	troubles, this pales into insignificance in comparison with
  	the spiritual uplifting Christian Science has brought me. 
15	I had not been inside a church for more than ten years,
  	to attend regular services, until I entered a Christian
  	Science church. What I saw and realized there, seemed
18	so genuine that I loved Christian Science from the very
  	start. I have never taken a treatment, — every inch
  	of the way has been through study and practical demon-
21	stration, and I know that all can do the same thing if they
  	will try. 
  	    Since I have been in Science I have overcome a case of
24	ulcerated tooth in one night through the reading of Science
  	and Health; also a severe attack of grip in thirty-six hours
  	by obeying the Scripture saying, "Physician, heal thy-
27	self." — B. H. N., New York, N. Y. 


  	CANCER AND CONSUMPTION HEALED 

  	    I was a great sufferer for many years from internal
30	cancer and consumption. I was treated by the best of
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   611


 1	physicians in New York, Minneapolis, and Duluth, and
  	was finally given up as incurable, when I heard of Chris-
 3	tian Science. A neighbor who had been healed of con-
  	sumption, kindly loaned me Science and Health by Mrs.
  	Eddy, which I read and became interested in. In three
 6	months' time, I was healed, the truth conveyed to me by
  	this book being the healer, and not only of these diseases,
  	but I was made whole mentally as well. I have not been
 9	in bed one day since, or rather in eleven years. I have
  	had many good demonstrations during this time, have
  	passed through many a "fiery trial," but this blessed truth
12	has caused me to stand, at times seemingly alone, and
  	God was with me. 
  	    I will mention a demonstration of painless childbirth
15	which I have had since coming to Idaho. Perhaps it may
  	help some sister who is looking through the Journal for
  	a demonstration of this kind, as I was before my baby
18	came. Good help being scarce here, I did my housework
  	up to the time I was confined, and was in perfect health. 
  	I awoke my husband one morning at five o'clock, and at
21	half past five baby was born, no one being present but
  	my husband and myself. It was quite a surprise to the
  	rest of the family to see me sitting by the fire with a new
24	baby on my lap. My son got the breakfast, of which I
  	ate heartily; at noon I joined the family in the dining-
  	room. I was out on the porch the second day, around
27	the yard the third day, and have been perfectly well
  	ever since, which has been now over three years. To
  	one who had previously passed through agony untold,
30	with a physician in attendance, this seemed wonderful. 
  	I hope this will interest some one who is seeking the truth,
  	and I wish to express my sincere love for our beloved
  

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   612


1	Leader, who has given us the "Key to the Scriptures."
  	 — E. C. C., Lewiston, Idaho. 


 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 way home I thought of some of the testimonies
30	which I had heard the night before, — of people being
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   613


 1	healed by simply reading Science and Health. I resolved
  	at once to borrow a copy, and not dreaming of the
 3	sacrifice that my friend would make by conferring such
  	a favor, I went and asked her for a loan of Science
  	and Health. I never saw any one part so reluctantly
 6	with a book as my friend did with her copy of the
  	textbook. 
  	    I read it silently and audibly, day and night, in my
 9	home, and although I could not seem to understand
  	it, yet the healing commenced to take place at once. 
  	The little mouth which had been twisted by spasms
12	grew natural and the child was soon able to be up,
  	playing and romping about the house as any child
  	should. About this time we decided to move to the
15	far West. 
  	    I was young in Science at the time, and my husband
  	greatly feared that the journey would cause a relapse
18	for the child, but instead, he continued to improve. I
  	constantly read the Bible, Science and Health, and Mis-
  	cellaneous Writings, the two weeks we traveled, and we
21	were the only ones in our car who, throughout the journey,
  	did not get train sick. The child's limbs grew perfectly
  	straight, he ate anything he wanted, and for years he has
24	been a natural, healthy child in every way. He has passed
  	through some of the worst forms of contagion untouched
  	and unharmed. 
27	    I had been reading Science and Health several months,
  	before I gave any thought to myself and my numerous
  	complaints. I had never been very strong, and some of
30	my ailments were supposed to be hereditary and chronic,
  	hence I dragged through many tedious years with a belief
  	in medical laws and hereditary laws resting upon me. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   614


 1	Just before I commenced reading Science and Health
  	I spent a half day in having my eyes examined by one
 3	of the leading oculists in Boston. His verdict was that
  	my eyes were in a dreadful condition, and that I would
  	always need to wear glasses. In the meantime I com-
 6	menced to read Science and Health, and when I thought
  	of my eyes, I had no need for glasses. The years that
  	I have been in Science I have used my eyes incessantly,
 9	night as well as day, doing all kinds of trying work and
  	without requiring the aid of glasses. I was healed of
  	all my complaints whilst seeking the truth for my child,
12	and many of them have never returned. Those that
  	appeared simply came to the surface to be destroyed. 
  	Teeth have been restored and facial blemishes re-
15	moved, unconsciously, simply by reading Science and
  	Health. All of this is, however, nothing to compare
  	with the spiritual uplifting which I have received, and
18	I have everything to be thankful for. — M. T. W., Los
  	Angeles, Cal. 


  	INTENSE SUFFERING OVERCOME 

21	    For about five years I was afflicted with sciatic rheu-
  	matism, in such a severe form that my body was drawn
  	out of shape. When able to be around, I walked with
24	the assistance of a cane. The attacks were periodical,
  	recurring every few months; any exposure to rain or
  	dampness would bring one. At one time I was in bed
27	eleven weeks, suffering intensely all the time except when
  	relieved by hypodermic injections. When I had these
  	attacks, my regular physician was always in attendance. 
30	My daughter consulted another physician, who said there  

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   615


1	would have to be an operation which would include
  	the exposing and scraping of the sciatic nerve. There
 3	was also another physician who, knowing of the case,
  	examined my heart and claimed that it was weak and
  	that I was liable to pass on at any time from heart
 6	trouble. 
  	    After suffering three years I heard of Christian Science,
  	but did not avail myself of it for two years, when I de-
 9	cided to give up all other means and rely wholly upon
  	it. It was not convenient to call a practitioner, so I took
  	Science and Health and applied its teachings as best
12	I could. In three days the trouble completely left
  	me and there has never been the slightest return. My
  	health has been good ever since, and I am at present
15	in perfect physical health. I have been benefited in
  	every way by Christian Science, physically, mentally, and
  	spiritually, and would not be without my understand-
18	ing of it for anything. — Mrs. E. A. K., Billings,
  	Mont. 


  	HEALED OF RHEUMATISM AND BRIGHT'S DISEASE 

21	    I am very thankful to God for what He has done for
  	me. I was suddenly left alone, with many troubles
  	and trials, and I took up the study of the Bible. I
24	was trying to understand it, prior to joining some
  	church, as it seemed to me this would be expected. I
  	had attended all sorts of churches from my childhood
27	up, but never could find any that met my need. As
  	time passed on, my condition became very alarming. 
  	Sciatic rheumatism, that had troubled me for some
30	years, became so severe I could scarcely do anything. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   616


 1	Then there appeared some complications, so distressing
  	that I was unable to walk far, and had to sit down fre-
 3	quently by the way. I thought I had Bright's disease, — 
  	such excruciating pains, no tongue could tell my suffer-
  	ings. With all these things upon me, death seemed very
 6	near. I had never joined any church, and I thought it
  	now too late, as I would have to wait six months on pro-
  	bation, and I would be dead before that. 
 9	    About this time I made some inquiries of my sister in
  	reference to Christian Science, as she had already turned to
  	that faith, and I soon found that it was just what I had
12	been looking for. I saw at once that it declared the truth
  	and nothing but the truth. I commenced reading Science
  	and Health, also the New Testament. I wanted to find
15	out what Jesus said, as I did not expect then to live long. 
  	I did not go to the meetings, nor did I read Science and
  	Health to be cured, — not thinking of that, — but to be
18	saved from an everlasting hell hereafter. My sister urged
  	me to have a practitioner, but I kept on reading, and
  	praying to God in silence, and what happened? Where
21	had the diseases gone? I persisted in reading Science
  	and Health, together with the Bible, with the knowl-
  	edge that God as revealed by Christ Jesus can do
24	everything, that He made everything that was made,
  	that He can and does heal the afflicted. He has healed
  	me, thanks to His most holy name. — G. J. H., Charles-
27	ton, Ill. 


  	GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS 

  	    In the year 1901, Christian Science found me a hope-
30	less invalid. I had suffered for seven years previous with
  	a very painful back, the result of an operation. I could
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   617


 1	get no rest or sleep at night, as I could not lie down, but
  	had to sit propped in a chair with pillows around me. 
 3	Only those who have suffered as I did can know the full
  	misery of it. I had come to the end of material means
  	and never hoped to get well. One day, however, while
 6	out walking, it was my good fortune to come to a Christian
  	Scientist's house, and there the teaching was explained
  	to me. I was advised to buy Science and Health, which
 9	I did, and the study of this book has healed my back en-
  	tirely. Christian Science has also cured me of long-
  	standing catarrh of the throat, and neuralgia with which
12	I had been afflicted from childhood. Before coming into
  	Science I had doctored with three of the best physicians
  	in Seattle, but none could give me relief. 
15	    I am no longer a sufferer, but rejoice exceedingly in
  	Christian Science. God's promise has been fulfilled to
  	me, "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
18	righteousness arise with healing in his wings." — E. O.,
  	Georgetown, Wash. 


  	FREED FROM NEURASTHENIC AND OTHER TROUBLES 

21	    Christian Science found in me a minister's son who
  	had failed to profit by continuous teaching in the old
  	thought. Some years ago I was pronounced by a pro-
24	fessor of materia medica, whose works are in general use,
  	a neurasthenic. I had been in this condition more or less
  	for eight years, and up to two years ago, when Christian
27	Science was first brought to my attention (thanks to Al-
  	mighty God) through a kind friend, I was almost con-
  	stantly taking medicine and had in all eleven physicians
30	who undoubtedly did their best, but without avail, not-
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   618


 1	withstanding almost all known drugs were prescribed,
  	and further I had tried very many patent medicines. I
 3	was also put through forms of hygienic treatment and
  	other things that offered inducements. At the time of
  	coming into Science I was taking three times daily forty
 6	minims of cod-liver oil and three of creosote, also three
  	drops of Fowler's solution of arsenic, and on the month
  	or so previous had bought eighteen dollars' worth of
 9	patent medicine. I was restricted to the simplest means
  	of diet, — all stews, fries, sweets, berries, and tomatoes I
  	had not touched for two years. 
12	    I started to read Science and Health, and before I had
  	half finished the book once I was eating everything that
  	any one does. I read the book eleven times straight
15	ahead and many times skipping about. The book
  	has done the work and I am a well man. — C. E. M.,
  	Philadelphia, Pa. 


18	MANY ILLS OVERCOME 

  	    I have received much help, spiritually and physically,
  	through Christian Science. I had what the doctors
21	diagnosed as muscular rheumatism, dropsy, and con-
  	stipation of thirty years' standing. A dear friend whom
  	I had known as an invalid had been healed by Christian
24	Science and advised me to read Science and Health. I
  	did so, having a desire to know the truth. One of my
  	troubles was that I could not sleep. I began reading the
27	Bible and the Christian Science textbook, and troubles
  	of every kind disappeared before I had read Science and
  	Health through. The thought came, What about the
30	old remedies? but truth prevailed, and I took all the
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   619


 1	material remedies I had and threw them away. That
  	was seven years ago, and I have not had any use for them
 3	since. My husband was healed of the tobacco habit
  	of fifty years' standing, also of kidney trouble, by read-
  	ing Science and Health. I have not words to express
 6	the gratitude I feel to-day for the many blessings that
  	have come to our home. — Mrs. M. K. O., Seattle,
  	Wash. 


 9	A HELPFUL HEALING 

  	    I became interested in Christian Science about eleven
  	years ago, and was healed of neuralgia of the stomach,
12	from which I had suffered from a child. As I grew older,
  	the spells became more frequent and more severe; the
  	only relief physicians could give me was by hypodermic
15	injections of morphine. Finally, after each spell, I would
  	be prostrated for a day or two with the after-effect of the
  	morphine. I was entirely healed of this trouble through
18	the study of Science and Health. I think I never realized
  	what fear meant until I began to try and put into practice
  	my understanding of Christian Science for my children. 
21	I have proved, however, many times, that fear can
  	neither help nor hinder in our demonstration of truth. 
  	The first time I realized this was in the overcoming of
24	a severe case of croup for my little boy. I was
  	awakened one night by the sound that seems to bring
  	terror to every mother's heart, and found the little
27	fellow sitting up in bed, gasping for breath. I got up,
  	took him in my arms, and went into the next room. 
  	My first thought was, "O if only there was another
30	Christian Scientist in town!" But there was not, and
  	the work must be done and done quickly. I tried
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   620


 1	to treat him, but was so frightened I could not think;
  	so I picked up Science and Health, which lay on the
 3	table beside me, and began reading aloud. I had read
  	but a few lines when these words came to me as though
  	a voice spoke, "The word of God is quick, and powerful,
 6	and sharper than any two-edged sword." Almost im-
  	mediately after, the little one said, "Mamma, sing 'Shep-
  	herd,' " — our Leader's hymn, that both the big and
 9	the little children love. I began singing, and commenc-
  	ing with the second line, the little voice joined me. I
  	shall never forget the feeling of joy and peace that came
12	over me, when I realized how quickly God's word, through
  	Science and Health and the beautiful hymn, had accom-
  	plished the healing work. This is only one of many
15	instances in which the power of God's word to heal has
  	been demonstrated in our home. — A. J. G., River-
  	side, Cal. 


18	RELIEF FROM MANY ILLS 

  	    Paul said, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your
  	mind." In my own case deafness has been overcome by
21	an enlarged understanding of God's word, as explained
  	by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health. Many times I
  	have been enabled to turn to God, to know it was His
24	will to help in trouble, and obtained the needed benefit. 
  	Catarrh has disappeared; tonsilitis, which very frequently
  	laid me aside from duties in the schoolroom and home,
27	is no longer manifest. When temptation comes (for
  	Christian Science is both preventive and curative), I turn
  	to that wonderful book, Science and Health, and my
30	precious Bible, grown dearer since read in the new light
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   621


 1	of spiritual understanding, until I know that my mind is
  	renewed, because the action is changed and the inflam-
 3	mation has abated. 
  	    Thus in my experience in Christian Science, I have seen
  	the transformation begun, and Truth is able to perfect
 6	that which is begun in me so gloriously. — Mrs. C. A.
  	McL., Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. 


  	HEALTH AND PEACE ATTAINED 

 9	    For fifteen years I was a great sufferer physically and
  	mentally. Eminent physicians treated me for hereditary
  	consumption, torpid liver, and many other diseases. I
12	sought relief at famous springs, the ozone of Florida, and
  	the pure air of Colorado, but in vain. My life was one
  	ceaseless torture. 
15	    During all this time, however, I was an earnest seeker
  	after Truth. I examined every religious teaching with
  	a calm and unprejudiced attention. From an orthodox
18	Protestant I became a skeptic, and a follower of Voltaire,
  	Tom Paine, and Ingersoll; yet all the while I retained
  	faith in a supreme intelligent Being who made all. Sick,
21	weary, doubting, and despairing, I accidentally went into
  	a Christian Science church in New York City, on a Wed-
  	nesday evening, not knowing what kind of a place it was. 
24	Seeing a large number of people going into the build-
  	ing, I followed, supposing that a marriage ceremony
  	had attracted the crowd. Being informed it was their
27	regular Wednesday evening service, I inquired as to the
  	denomination. I concluded that it was another new fad,
  	but after investigation I procured a copy of Science and
30	Health, promising I would read it carefully. I began
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   622


 1	reading the book on Tuesday and finished on Friday of
  	the same week. I was still in the dark. I laid the book
 3	down, involuntarily closed my eyes, and silently prayed
  	to God. 
  	    I remained in that attitude a few moments, when I
 6	felt like the mariner who had been tossed for days upon
  	a boisterous sea, the clouds bending low, the billows
  	rolling high, all nature wrapped in darkness; in his de-
 9	spair he kneels and commits his soul to God, when he
  	suddenly beholds the North Star breaking through the
  	clouds, enabling him to guide his ship to the shores of
12	safety. Many things were made plain to me. I saw
  	that there is one Fatherhood of God and one brother-
  	hood of man; that though "once I was blind, now I see;"
15	that there was no more pain, nor aches, no fear, nor in-
  	digestion. I slept that night like a babe and awoke next
  	morning refreshed. There are now no traces whatever of
18	my former complaint and I feel like a new being. — L. P.,
  	New York, N. Y. 


  	HEALTH AND PEACE GAINED 

21	    About nine years ago I was drawn to Christian
  	Science by a relative whose many afflictions had given
  	place to health and harmony, and whose loving grati-
24	tude was reflected in every word and deed. The
  	thought came to me, God indeed healeth all our
  	diseases. 
27	    My first reading of Science and Health was without
  	understanding. I was full of darkness and gloom, and
  	it was laid aside for a time. The good seed had been
30	sown, however, and erelong the reading was resumed,
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   623


 1	and with such interest that my afflictions disappeared
  	"like mist before the morning sun." Asthma (thought
 3	to be hereditary), neuralgia in an aggravated form, and
  	besides these, the tobacco and liquor habit of many years'
  	standing left me. Bless the Lord, "He sent his word"
 6	and healed me, — for the reading of Science and Health
  	brought to my consciousness the truth that makes free.
  	 — S., Shellman, Ga. 


 9	CONSUMPTION QUICKLY CURED 

  	    I became interested in Christian Science nearly five
  	years ago through the healing of my wife of what the
12	doctors called consumption in its last stages. I had tried
  	everything that I could get in the way of materia medica,
  	and every doctor would tell me nearly the same story
15	about the case. At last they recommended for her only
  	a higher, drier climate, and when she would be at her
  	worst to give her something to quiet her. 
18	    I tried different climates, but she was no better,
  	indeed worse. At last she struggled along until the
  	first of March, 1899. She had taken to her bed again. 
21	For two days and nights she suffered, and I called a
  	physician. He came and diagnosed the case, and said
  	that he could do nothing for her but give her some
24	morphine tablets to make her rest. I gave her two
  	of them according to direction, and just before the
  	time to give her the third, she called me to her bed-
27	side, and said, "Don't give me any more of that stuff,
  	for it does me more harm than good," so I turned and
  	placed them in the fire, though I did not then know any-
30	thing about Christian Science. We had heard of it, but
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   624


 1	that was all. I gave her the last tablet at eight o'clock
  	that night, and about nine o'clock the next day a lady
 3	who had been healed in Christian Science visited her,
  	and introduced her to this great truth. She accepted it
  	and thought she would try it. The lady loaned her Sci-
 6	ence and Health. She got the book about ten o'clock
  	that day and read it until dinner was called. She ate a
  	hearty dinner, the first in about three days, and that same
 9	evening she dressed herself, walked into the dining-room,
  	ate a hearty supper and enjoyed it. She slept well that
  	night. She borrowed this lady's copy of Science and
12	Health two hours each day for eight days, and was
  	healed. The first day that she read Science and Health
  	she weighed about ninety-five pounds. Three months
15	later she weighed one hundred and thirty-five pounds.
  	 — A. J. D., Houston, Tex. 


  	A PROFITABLE STUDY 

18	    It may help others to know that some one was really
  	healed of severe illness through Christian Science. It
  	is over nine years since we first became interested in
21	the Science, and it would be hard to find a healthier
  	person than I am now. I can go all day, from morn-
  	ing till night, upheld by the thought that "they that
24	wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." I
  	can truly say that I scarcely know what physical weari-
  	ness is any more. Before I came into Science the
27	physicians said that one lung was gone, and that the
  	other was affected with tuberculosis; so, from their
  	standpoint, there was little left for me to hope for. We
30	had tried every remedy that they had suggested. I had
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   625


 1	gone to the mountains, but could not stay there on account
  	of the altitude; and when they did not know what else
 3	to do, they said we would better go to England — that
  	the ocean air would be beneficial. So we spent three
  	months in the British Isles, and when I came back I
 6	seemed much better, but this only lasted a short time. 
  	In little more than a month I was worse than ever, and
  	my mother was told that I had but a few weeks, or at
 9	most months, to live. 
  	    At that time, a lady, a stranger to us, suggested that
  	we try Christian Science. There was no prejudice against
12	it, as we did not even know what it was. We knew of
  	no Scientists in the Western town where we were living,
  	and when we were told that we could send to Kansas City
15	for absent treatment, we thought it was absurd. We were
  	then told that many people had been healed through the
  	reading of the Christian Science textbook, Science and
18	Health, and to us this seemed a little worse than the
  	absent treatment, but as we had tried everything we
  	had heard of up to that time, my mother sent for the
21	book. 
  	    It came in the middle of October and we began to read
  	it together. It seemed to me from the first that it was
24	something I had always believed, but did not know how
  	to express — it seemed such a natural thing. My im-
  	provement was very gradual, but I felt I was recovering. 
27	After the Christmas holidays I started in at school and
  	went the whole term without missing a day, — some-
  	thing I had never done before. I finished my school
30	course without missing a day — in fact, I have not spent
  	a day in bed since that time. I feel absolutely certain
  	that I have two sound, healthy lungs now. The hollows  

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   626


1	in my chest have filled out, and I breathe perfectly on both
  	sides; rarely have a cold to meet, and have not a sign of
 3	a cough. 
  	    People sometimes say, "Oh, well, maybe you never had
  	consumption." Well, I had all the symptoms, and they
 6	are every one gone through the reading of Science and
  	Health. — E. L. B., Chicago, Ill. 


  	HEALED OF INFIDELITY AND MANY PHYSICAL ILLS 

 9	    I feel compelled to write my testimony and hope that
  	I may be accepted as one more witness to the Truth as con-
  	tained in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. 
12	    In the year 1883 I first heard of Christian Science. I
  	was sitting in a saloon in Leadville, Col., reading a daily
  	paper of that place. My eyes lighted upon an article
15	which spoke of some peculiar people in Boston who
  	claimed to have discovered how to heal as Jesus healed. 
  	I do not remember much of the article, but those words
18	stayed with me. 
  	    I had drifted out to Colorado from New York City (my
  	home), where I had been under the treatment of many
21	leading physicians. The last one, who was too honest
  	to take my money knowing that he could not cure me,
  	advised me to keep away from doctors and quit taking
24	medicine, as nothing but death could cure me. My
  	trouble was pronounced by some to be Bright's disease,
  	by others gravel on the kidneys with very acute inflam-
27	mation of the bladder and prostate gland. 
  	    In the spring of 1888 my wife and myself were spend-
  	ing the evening at the house of a gentleman whose wife
30	had been healed in the East by Christian Science. The
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   627


 1	gentleman took a book from its bookcase saying, "Here
  	is a work on Christian Science." It proved to be Science
 3	and Health. I knew as soon as I had read the title-page
  	that this was the very book we wanted. We immediately
  	sent for the book, and when it arrived we obeyed the angel
 6	and feasted on it. I was very much prejudiced against
  	the Bible, and my first demonstration over self was to
  	consent to read the four Gospels. My wife bought me a
 9	New Testament and I began to read it. What a change
  	came over me! All my prejudice was gone in an instant! 
  	When I read the Master's words, I caught his meaning
12	and the lesson he tried to convey. It was not difficult for
  	me to accept the whole Bible, for I could not help myself,
  	I was just captured. The disease with which I had been
15	troubled for years tormented me worse than ever for
  	about six months, as if trying to turn me aside; but I lost
  	all fear of it. 
18	    I kept up my study of Science and Health and the dis-
  	ease disappeared. I can honestly say that Science and
  	Health was my only healer, and it has been my only
21	teacher. — R. A. C., Los Angeles, Cal. 


  	DISEASED EYES CURED 

  	    Christian Science came to me when I was a wreck, my
24	body being completely covered with sores. My eyes were
  	very bad, so that I sat in a darkened room for weeks to-
  	gether, most of the time in bed under opiates. The home
27	doctor and a specialist said the disease of the eyes could not
  	be cured, though they might help me for a while. I had
  	one operation, and the doctor said if I took cold I would
30	become totally blind. My suffering was beyond telling. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   628


 1	A clergyman called almost every day, and sat by my bed
  	and wept, and my good, kind doctor shed tears many times. 
 3	Finally, after a year of this terrible suffering, I was sent
  	to Indiana, to a sister who had been healed of lung trouble
  	by Christian Science. The first day I was there she read
 6	to me from the Bible and from "Science and Health with
  	Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and I was healed. I
  	knew that God was no respecter of persons, and when I
 9	saw what had been done for my sister, who was changed
  	from being a mere frame to a strong, robust, healthy, rosy-
  	cheeked woman, the cough all gone, I said, "God has as
12	much for me, if I will accept it." I was healed instan-
  	taneously by Christian Science, and am thankful to God
  	for giving us this understanding through Mrs. Eddy,
15	our beloved Leader. I am now in perfect health.
  	 — Mrs. F. S., Laurel, Miss. 


  	THE TEXTBOOK HEALED ME 

18	    For twelve years previous to the fall of 1897 I had been
  	under the care of a physician much of the time. Different
  	opinions were given by them, as to the nature of the trouble,
21	some diagnosing it as an abnormal growth, etc. I was
  	healed through reading "Science and Health with Key to
  	the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. It was a clear case of
24	transformation of the body by the renewal of the mind. 
  	I am perfectly well at the present time. — J. M. H.,
  	Omaha, Neb. 


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
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   629


 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
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   630


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. 


  	DYSPEPSIA QUICKLY HEALED 

  	    It has occurred to me that I have had ample time to
30	meditate on the many blessings which I have received
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   631


 1	through Christian Science, as it is now more than six
  	years since I was entirely healed of dyspepsia as well as
 3	constipation in its worst form by the reading of Science
  	and Health. So aggravated were the conditions that for
  	three years or more I was unable to drink a glass of cold
 6	water. Everything that I drank had to be hot, and my
  	only means of relief from the bowel trouble was hot water
  	injections, for a period of more than three years. 
 9	    I can truthfully say that I was permanently, and I might
  	say instantly, healed of those two ailments by reading
  	Science and Health as before stated, and in fact I do not
12	think I had read more than thirty pages of this book when
  	I ignored entirely the most rigid kind of diet. I ate and
  	drank everything I wished without a single harmful effect
15	from that time to this date, and there has not been a drop
  	of medicine in our home for more than six years, in a fam-
  	ily of five. 
18	    I have also seen the power of Truth manifested in our
  	home by having our youngest child relieved of the most
  	excruciating pain, and changed to his most playful mood,
21	immediately upon notifying one of the faithful practi-
  	tioners of this city. For all this I am endeavoring to be
  	thankful to God and to our faithful Leader, Mrs. Eddy,
24	whose pure and undefiled life enabled her to discover this
  	precious truth for the benefit of all mankind. — M. C.
  	McK., Denver, Col. 


27	AFTER TWENTY YEARS' SUFFERING 

  	    From early girlhood I was considered an invalid, hav-
  	ing been injured by a hard fall while playing. The pain
30	was intense for some time and for several hours I was un-
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   632


 1	able to walk or stand alone. Later, a growing weakness
  	of the back accompanied with sharp pains alarmed my
 3	parents, who called a physician, and he pronounced it
  	spinal trouble. Then followed nearly twenty years of
  	increased suffering, at times very severe. As years went
 6	by and I became a wife and mother, my suffering in-
  	creased. Everything that medical skill could do was
  	done, but finding no lasting benefit from anything, I lost
 9	hope of recovery. 
  	    When Christian Science found me I was under the
  	doctor's sentence that if I lived the week through I would
12	become entirely helpless, not able to move hand or foot. 
  	My husband was a travelling man, and being urgently
  	called home, he met an old friend on the train who asked
15	why we did not try Christian Science. The reply, We
  	know nothing of it, was followed by a brief explanation
  	of its healing power and the benefit his family had re-
18	ceived. This inspired my husband with new hope, and
  	on his arrival at home he called on a practitioner, who
  	recommended our getting Science and Health, which we
21	did, but ignorance and the prejudice of old education
  	produced such fear that I hid the book under the covers
  	of the bed whenever the children came into the room,
24	fearing that it was not of God and would injure them. 
  	God's dear love was, however, more potent than these
  	foolish fears, and the first day I read from its sacred pages
27	I was convinced its teachings were the same truths as
  	Jesus Christ had taught centuries ago. When I had read
  	a few pages, I reached out and threw my medicine from the
30	open window at the head of my bed. I then turned back to
  	the book and began reading again, when, lo, the Christ-idea
  	dawned upon me, and I was healed instantaneously. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   633


 1	    I first noticed the spot in my back cooling, and soon
  	I got out of bed. I continued to read eagerly; I felt as
 3	if I wanted to devour the healing truth, and drank it in
  	as a thirsty plant does the gentle rain. When dinner was
  	prepared, I walked out and ate a hearty meal with the
 6	family, to the amazement of all. We shall never forget
  	what a joyful meal this was. How we did thank God
  	for Christian Science! 
 9	    As year after year has gone by, till twenty years have
  	passed and the healing has remained perfect, I have
  	grown to thank God with deeper sincerity that one brave
12	woman was found pure enough to bring forth this Christ-
  	healing again, to remain forever among men and to save
  	suffering humanity from all disease and sin. — Mrs.
15	P. L. H., Fairmont, Minn. 


  	FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE AND JOY 

  	    I have often had a desire to make public what Chris-
18	tian Science has done for me, but I never could tell of
  	all my blessings, they are so many. From childhood
  	I was always sick, never knew one hour of rest, and was
21	under the doctor's care most of the time. I was living in
  	the East at that time, and was advised to try change of
  	climate, which I did. I came West with my family in
24	the spring of the year, but instead of growing better I
  	grew steadily worse, until at last I was obliged to keep
  	my bed for nearly three years, — a great sufferer. My
27	ailments were, it seemed, all that flesh is heir to, and
  	were called incurable by the doctors; viz., Bright's dis-
  	ease, and many others, — in the last stages. My case was
30	known among physicians, many of whom were prominent
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   634


 1	specialists, as a most extreme one. Many, upon looking
  	at me, would turn away with a wise shake of the head
 3	and say, "What keeps her alive?" My physicians, who
  	were exceedingly kind and did all that lay within their
  	power for me, gave me up and the death sentence was
 6	pronounced on me by all who attended me. 
  	    It was then I realized that "man's extremity is God's
  	opportunity." The "little book" was handed me at this
 9	hour of great need. I read it, not thinking it would heal
  	me, but, like a drowning man, I grasped at it. I read it,
  	read it again, and soon found myself growing stronger;
12	then I kept on reading and was perfectly healed of all the
  	supposedly incurable diseases. — L. B., Austin, Minn. 


  	TRUTH MAKES FREE 

15	    As the son of a physician, a graduate in pharmacy,
  	and an ex-druggist, I had a perfect contempt for what
  	I thought Christian Science to be. About six and a half
18	years ago, however, having exhausted all material means
  	at my command, — materia medica, electricity, gym-
  	nastics, cycling, and so on, — and being in a hopeless
21	state, the study of Christian Science was taken up. I
  	had been a sufferer from catarrh and sore throat for over
  	thirty years, and in the last five were added several others,
24	including dyspepsia, and bronchitis, and a loss in flesh of
  	sixty pounds. I was completely healed, and regained
  	health, strength, and flesh through the spiritual under-
27	standing of Christian Science, the result of about six
  	weeks' study. This good and perfect gift came to me
  	through the careful and prayerful study of Christian
30	Science, as revealed to the world to-day through Science
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   635


 1	and Health. The promise of Christ Jesus, "the truth
  	shall make you free," was fulfilled, and the past six years
 3	of health and harmony have been spent in striving to
  	"hold fast that which is good." 
  	    While most grateful for the physical healing, my grati-
 6	tude for the mental and spiritual regeneration is beyond
  	expression. When I learned that Jesus' mission of heal-
  	ing sickness as well as sin did not end with his short stay
 9	upon earth, but is practical in all ages, my joy was un-
  	bounded. Having spent thousands in the old way, it
  	seemed wonderful to be healed at such small cost as the
12	price of the "little book" and a few weeks' study. Every
  	thought of prejudice immediately vanished before the
  	proofs that Christian Science is indeed the elucidation
15	and practical application of Jesus' teachings, which are
  	demonstrable truth, "The same yesterday, and to-day,
  	and forever." — C. N. C., Memphis, Tenn. 


18	DEAF EARS UNSTOPPED 

  	    As a mother of a family my heart goes out in love and
  	gratitude to that good woman we are privileged to call
21	our Leader, for all she has done through her book for me
  	and mine. 
  	    Ten years ago I was healed of hereditary deafness and
24	catarrh of the head, simply through reading the book,
  	Science and Health. For years previous I had consulted
  	and taken treatment from some of the best specialists
27	for the ear and throat, both in England and America,
  	but grew worse all the time. I was then urged by a lady
  	who had been healed through Christian Science to buy
30	this book and study it. I did so very reluctantly, but
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   636


1	had not read fifty pages before I felt I had indeed found
  	the truth which makes free, and can truly say, from that
 3	time I have never had a return of the ailment. 
  	    That for which I am, however, most grateful, is the
  	daily help it is to me in my household of young chil-
 6	dren. I am sure if mothers only knew what Christian
  	Science truly means they would give all they possess
  	to know it. We have seen croup, measles, fever, and
 9	various other children's complaints, so-called, disappear
  	like dew before the morning sun, through the applica-
  	tion of Christian Science, — the understanding of God
12	as ever-present and omnipotent. It has been proven
  	to me without a doubt that God is a very present help in
  	trouble, and what a blessed help this wonderful truth is
15	in the training of our children, and how quickly the child
  	grasps it. 
  	    Some time ago my little girl, then three years old,
18	dislocated her shoulder. I was alone in the house at
  	the time. The pain was so intense that she became
  	faint. I treated her the best I knew how, but kept
21	holding the thought that just as soon as some one came
  	I would run for help. She seemed to grow worse and
  	cried very much. I undressed her and tried to twist
24	the arm into place, but it caused such suffering that I
  	began to get afraid. Then like a flash came the thought,
  	What would you do if you were out of the reach of a prac-
27	titioner? Now is your time to prove God's power and
  	presence. With these thoughts came such a sense of
  	calm and trustfulness that I lost all fear. I then asked
30	the child if I should read to her; she said "Yes, mamma,
  	read the truth-book." I began reading aloud to her
  	from Science and Health. In about half an hour I noticed
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   637


 1	she tried to lift the arm but screamed and became very
  	pale. I continued to read aloud and again she made
 3	an effort to put some candy into her mouth. This time
  	I noticed with joy that she almost reached her mouth
  	before she felt the pain. I kept reading aloud to her
 6	until my sister and two boys came in, when she jumped
  	off her bed, so delighted to see her brothers that she for-
  	got her arm. She then began to tell her aunt that she
 9	had broken her arm and mamma treated it with the truth-
  	book. When this happened, it was about 10.30 A.M. 
  	and by 3 P.M. she was playing out doors as though
12	nothing had ever happened. — Mrs. M. G., Winnipeg,
  	Man. 


  	SAVED FROM INSANITY AND SUICIDE 

15	    A few years ago, while under a sense of darkness and
  	despair caused by ill health and an unhappy home, Sci-
  	ence and Health was loaned me with a request that I
18	should read it. 
  	    At that time my daughter was given up by materia
  	medica to die of lingering consumption, supposed to have
21	been inherited. My own condition seemed even more
  	alarming, as insanity was being manifested, and rather
  	than go to an insane asylum, it seemed to me the only
24	thing to do was to commit suicide. Heart trouble, kid-
  	ney complaint, and continual headaches caused from
  	female trouble were some of the many ailments I had
27	to contend with. My doctor tried to persuade me to
  	undergo an operation as a means of relief, but I had
  	submitted to a severe operation ten years previous, and
30	found only additional suffering as a result, so I would
  	not consent. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   638


 1	    When I began with Science and Health, I read the
  	chapter on "Prayer" first, and at that time did not sup-
 3	pose it possible for me to remember anything I read,
  	but felt a sweet sense of God's protection and power,
  	and a hope that I should at last find Him to be what
 6	I so much needed, — a present help in time of trouble. 
  	Before that chapter on "Prayer" was finished, my daugh-
  	ter was downstairs eating three meals a day, and daily
 9	growing stronger. Before I had finished reading the
  	textbook she was well, but never having heard that the
  	reading of Science and Health healed any one, it was
12	several months before I gave God the glory. 
  	    One by one my many ailments left me, all but the head-
  	aches; they were less frequent, until at the end of three
15	years the fear of them was entirely overcome. 
  	    Neither myself nor my daughter have ever received
  	treatments, but the study of the Bible and Science and
18	Health, the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy,
  	has healed us and keeps us well. 
  	    While Christian Science was very new to me, I at-
21	tended an experience meeting in First Church of Christ,
  	Scientist, Chicago. A gentleman told of an unhappy
  	woman who was about to separate from her husband. 
24	This gentleman had asked her if she did not love her
  	husband. She replied, "No; when I married him I
  	did, but not now." He told her God made man in His
27	image and likeness, and that He is perfect. He said
  	to her, "Go home and see only God's perfect man; you
  	don't need to love a sinful mortal such as you have been
30	looking upon." The lady followed his advice, as he
  	told her there is no separation in divine Mind. In a
  	short time peace and harmony were in her home, and
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   639


 1	both husband and wife became members of a Christian
  	Science church. 
 3	    This testimony was like a message from heaven to me. 
  	I had received many benefits from the study of Science
  	and Health, but it had never dawned upon my darkened
 6	consciousness till then how wonderful our God is. I
  	knew what had taken place in that home could take place
  	in my unhappy home where there was neither rest nor
 9	peace. 
  	    I hopefully took up my cross, and step by step my
  	burden grew lighter, as I journeyed along, realizing the
12	presence of the Christ, Truth, that indeed makes us
  	free. Not all at once did any outward change appear,
  	but at the end of three years all was peace, all the
15	members of the family attending church together and
  	realizing that there is but one Mind. — E. J. B., Supe-
  	rior, Wis. 


18	STOMACH TROUBLE HEALED 

  	    I was healed of stomach trouble of many years' stand-
  	ing by reading Science and Health. My condition had
21	reached the stage in which I had periodical attacks, that
  	came on with greater frequency. I was a travelling sales-
  	man, and it was a common occurrence for me to have to
24	call a physician to my hotel to administer morphine for
  	an acute form of this disease. This became a regular
  	thing at certain places, and these attacks always left me
27	worse than before. As a result of the last one I lost a
  	great deal in weight. I had tried many physicians and
  	most of the usual remedies during these years of suffer-
30	ing, without any good result. Finally, as a last resort, I
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   640


1	decided to try Christian Science, and I was healed by
  	reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"
 3	by Mrs. Eddy. 
  	    My health has been of the best since I was healed, now
  	six years ago. In the family we have depended entirely
 6	on Christian Science for our healing, and have ever found
  	it efficacious. We consider the physical healing, however,
  	only incidental to the understanding of God and His good-
 9	ness. This, together with our increased love for the Bible,
  	is proving most valuable to us. We are humbly trying
  	to live the lives that will prove our gratitude to God, and
12	to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy. — Charles E. Peck,
  	St. Johnsbury, Vt. 


  	FREED FROM MANY YEARS OF SUFFERING 

15	    In the spring of 1880 I was taken down with a severe
  	attack of stomach trouble, was bedfast for three months,
  	and not able to drive out for nearly six months. During
18	this time I had three good doctors treating me. I gained
  	a little in strength, but had very little relief from the
  	stomach trouble. I was recommended to try mineral
21	springs and did so, but with the same disappointment. I
  	went to a sanitarium, but yet the stomach trouble pre-
  	vailed. I had some friends who recommended patent
24	medicines, but no healing came. 
  	    I worried along in this way for several years. Finally
  	I read medicine nearly two years with a good doctor
27	friend, especially for my own benefit, and during this
  	time I had a severe attack of bladder trouble, and for
  	fifteen years I suffered so severely at times that I thought
30	life was not really worth living. In connection with these
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   641


 1	troubles I suffered every winter with rheumatism and
  	the grip. I also had a growth coming on both eyes called
 3	cataract, which caused my eyes to be inflamed nearly
  	all the time, and this growth had made such progress
  	that it was causing my vision to be very dim when read-
 6	ing. Corns were not forgotten, as I was reminded of
  	them very frequently, and for all these troubles I had tried
  	every remedy I heard of that I was able to get, specialists
 9	included, without relief. 
  	    Thanks to a friend who took me in this hopeless, dis-
  	couraged condition and led me to the light that never
12	knows darkness, I got a copy of Science and Health by
  	Mrs. Eddy and was healed in a short time by reading this
  	work. — D. W. L., Anderson, Ind. 


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-
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   642


 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. 


21	GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS 

  	    It is with sincere gratitude for the many blessings Chris-
  	tian Science has brought me, that I give this testimony. 
24	I first heard of Christian Science about fifteen years
  	ago. A friend of mine was taking treatment for physical
  	troubles, and was reading the textbook of Christian
27	Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. 
  	The title of the book appealed to me very strongly. I
  	said to my friend, "If that is a Key to the Scriptures,
30	I must have it." 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   643


 1	    I had long been a member of a Bible class in an or-
  	thodox Sabbath school, but I never felt satisfied with
 3	that which was taught; there was something lacking,
  	I did not understand then what it was. I purchased a
  	copy of Science and Health and began to study it. I
 6	wish I could express in words what that book brought
  	me. It illumined the Bible with a glorious light and I
  	began to understand some of the Master's sayings, and
 9	tried to apply them. 
  	    I had had a longing to live a better Christian life for
  	many years, and often wondered why I failed so utterly
12	to understand the Bible. Now I knew; it was lack of
  	spiritual apprehension. 
  	    I did not know at first that people were healed of dis-
15	ease and sin by simply reading Science and Health,
  	but found after a while that such was the case. At
  	that time I had many physical troubles, and one after
18	another of these ills simply disappeared and I found
  	that I had no disease, — I was perfectly free. The
  	spiritual uplifting was glorious, too, and as I go on in the
21	study of this blessed Science, I find I am gaining surely
  	an understanding that helps me to overcome both sin and
  	disease in myself and in others. My faith in good is in-
24	creased and I know I am losing my belief in evil as a power
  	equal to good. The pathway is not wearisome, because
  	each victory over self gives stronger faith and a more
27	earnest desire to press on. — E. J. R., Toledo, Ohio. 


  	GRATEFUL FOR MORAL AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING 

  	    About four years ago, after I had tried different ways
30	and means to be relieved from bodily suffering, a faith-
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   644


 1	ful friend called my attention to the teaching of Chris-
  	tian Science. After some opposition, I decided to in-
 3	vestigate it, with the thought that if this teaching would
  	be helpful, it was meant for me as well as for others; if
  	it did not afford any help, I could put it aside again, but
 6	that I would find out and be convinced. 
  	    After I had read Mrs. Eddy's work, Science and Health,
  	a few days, I found that my ailments had disappeared,
 9	and a rest had come to me which I had never before known. 
  	I had smoked almost incessantly, although I had often
  	determined to use my will power and never smoke again,
12	but had always failed. This desire as well as the de-
  	sire for drink simply disappeared, and I wish to say here,
  	that I received all these benefits before I had gained much
15	understanding of what I was reading. Like a prisoner,
  	who had been in chains for years, I was suddenly set free. 
  	I did not then know how the chain had been removed,
18	but I had to acknowledge that it came through the reading
  	of this book. I then felt an ardent desire to read more,
  	and to know what this power was that had freed me
21	in a few days of that which I had been trying for years
  	to shake off and had failed. It then became clear to
  	me that this was the truth which Jesus Christ taught
24	and preached to free humanity almost two thousand
  	years ago. It did not, however, occur to me to apply
  	it in my business affairs; on the contrary, I first thought
27	that if I continued in my study I would have to retire
  	from business. 
  	    This did not happen, however, for I gradually found
30	that the little understanding of this wonderful teach-
  	ing which I had acquired became a great help to me in
  	my business. I became more friendly, more honest,
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   645


 1	more loving to my fellow-men; and I also acquired better
  	judgment and was able to do the right thing at the right
 3	time. As a natural result my business improved. Be-
  	fore I knew anything of Christian Science my business
  	had often been a burden to me, fear and worry deprived
 6	me of my rest. How different it is now! Through the
  	study of the Bible, which now possesses unmeasurable
  	treasures for me, and of our textbook, Science and Health,
 9	and the other works of our Leader, I receive peace and
  	confidence in God and that insight into character which
  	is necessary for the correct management of any business.
12	 — W. H. H., Bloomfield, Neb. 


  	HEREDITARY DISEASE OF THE LUNGS CURED 

  	    For a long time I have been impelled to contribute a
15	testimony of the healing power of Truth. As I read
  	other testimonies and rejoice in them, some one may
  	rejoice in mine. I was healed by reading Science and
18	Health. By applying it, I found it to be the truth that
  	Jesus taught, — the truth that sets free. 
  	    From childhood I had never known a well day. I
21	was healed of lung trouble of long standing. Con-
  	sumption was hereditary in our family, my mother and
  	three brothers having passed on with it. The law of
24	materia medica said that in a short time I must fol-
  	low them. I also had severe stomach trouble of over
  	eight years' standing, during which time I always re-
27	tired without supper, as the fear of suffering from my
  	food was so great that I denied myself food when hun-
  	gry. For over twenty years I had ovarian trouble,
30	which was almost unbearable at times. It dated from
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   646


 1	the birth of my first child, and at one time necessitated
  	an operation. I suffered with about all the ills that
 3	flesh is heir to:  I had trouble with my eyes from a child;
  	wore glasses for fourteen years, several oculists saying
  	I would go blind, one declaring I would be blind in less
 6	than a year if I did not submit to an operation, which I
  	refused to do. 
  	    But thanks be to God whose Truth reached me through
 9	the study of our textbook. Words fail to express what
  	Christian Science has done for me in various ways, for
  	my children, my home, my all. The physical healing
12	is but a small part; the spiritual unfolding and uplifting
  	is the "pearl of great price," the half that has never been
  	told. — Mrs. J. P. M., Kansas City, Mo. 


15	TEXTBOOK APPRECIATED 

  	    It has been my privilege to have interviews with
  	representatives of more than sixty per cent of the na-
18	tions of this earth, under their own vine and fig-tree. 
  	I had never heard a principle understandingly ad-
  	vanced that would enable mankind to obey the apos-
21	tolic command, "prove all things," until Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures was placed in my
  	hands. I believe that the honest study of this book
24	in connection with the Bible will enable one to "prove
  	all things." 
  	    I make this unqualified statement because of what
27	my eyes have seen and my ears heard from my fellow-
  	men of unquestioned integrity, and the positive proofs
  	I have gained by the study of these books. Many
30	supposed material laws that had been rooted and
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   647


 1	grounded in my mentality from youth have been over-
  	come. It required some time for me to wake up to
 3	our Leader's words in Miscellaneous Writings, p. 206:
  	"The advancing stages of Christian Science are gained
  	through growth, not accretion." I had many disappoint-
 6	ments and falls before I was willing to do the scientific
  	work required to prove this statement; yet notwithstanding
  	the cost to ourselves, I am convinced that we cannot do
 9	much credit to the cause we profess to love until we place
  	ourselves in a position to prove God as He really is to us
  	individually, and our relation to Him, by scientific work. 
12	    I wish to express loving gratitude to our Leader for
  	the new edition of Science and Health. In studying
  	this new edition one cannot help seeing the wisdom,
15	love, and careful and prayerful thought expressed in
  	the revision. Often the changing of a single word in
  	a sentence makes the scientific thought not only more
18	lucid to him who is familiar with the book, but also to
  	those just coming into the blessed light. All honor to
  	that God-loving, God-fearing woman, Mary Baker G. 
21	Eddy, whose only work is the work of love in the helping
  	of mankind to help themselves; who has placed before her
  	fellow-men understandingly, what man's divine rights are,
24	and what God really is. — H. W. B., Hartford, Conn. 


  	RUPTURE AND OTHER SERIOUS ILLS HEALED 

  	    When I took up the study of Christian Science
27	nearly three years ago, I was suffering from a very
  	bad rupture of thirty-two years' standing. Sometimes
  	the pain was so severe that it seemed as if I could not
30	endure it. These spells would last four or five hours,
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   648


 1	and while everything was done for me that could be
  	done, no permanent relief came to me until I com-
 3	menced reading Science and Health with Key to the
  	Scriptures. After I had once looked into it I wanted to
  	read all the time. I was so absorbed in the study of
 6	the "little book" that I hardly realized when the healing
  	came, but I was healed, not only of the rupture, but also
  	of other troubles, — inflammatory rheumatism, catarrh,
 9	corns, and bunions. 
  	    I would never part with the book if I could not get
  	another. I am seventy-seven years old, and am enjoy-
12	ing very good health. — Mrs. M. E. P., St. Johnsbury, Vt. 


  	MOTHER AND DAUGHTER HEALED 

  	    When Christian Science came to me, I had been tak-
15	ing medicine every day for twenty years, on account of
  	constipation. I had been treated by doctors and spe-
  	cialists; had taken magnetic treatments and osteopathy;
18	had tried change of climate; had an operation in a hospital,
  	and when I came out was worse than before. I was
  	so discouraged, after I had tried everything I ever heard
21	of, and was no better but rather grew worse, that it seemed
  	as though I must give up trying to get well, when a friend
  	suggested that I try Christian Science. I had heard
24	that Christian Scientists healed by prayer, and I thought
  	this must be the way Jesus had healed. I felt that this
  	was all there was left for me to try. I sent for the book,
27	Science and Health, and commenced to read it out of
  	curiosity, not thinking or knowing that I could be helped
  	by the reading, but thinking I must still take medicine
30	and that I must also have treatment by a Scientist. I,
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   649


 1	however, dropped my medicine and read for three days;
  	then a light began to shine in the darkness. I was healed
 3	of the trouble and have never had to take medicine since. 
  	I have studied Science and Health faithfully ever since,
  	and other ailments have disappeared. My little daughter
 6	has also been healed and has learned to use this knowledge
  	in her school work. — Mrs. O. R., Leadville, Col. 


  	LIVER COMPLAINT HEALED 

 9	    As my thoughts go back to the time when I believed
  	I had nothing to live for, and when each morning's awak-
  	ing from sleep brought a sense of disappointment to find
12	myself still among the living (for I had hoped each night
  	that I closed my eyes in sleep that it would be the last
  	time), my heart overflows with love and gratitude to
15	God for our dear Leader who discovered this blessed
  	truth and to the dear ones who have helped me so lov-
  	ingly and patiently over many rough places. 
18	    Twelve years ago, I consulted a physician because I
  	had noticed some odd-looking spots on one of my arms. 
  	He said they were liver spots, but that it was not worth
21	while prescribing for those few, that I should wait until
  	I was covered with them. About three months later,
  	with the exception of my face and hands, I was covered
24	with them. Then I became alarmed and called on
  	another physician who prescribed for me, but he finally
  	said he could do no more for me. Other physicians
27	were consulted with no better results. Six years ago,
  	friends advised me to see their family physician, and
  	when I called on him he said he was positive he could
30	cure me, so I asked him to prescribe for me. At the
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   650


 1	end of two years, after prescribing steadily, he said I
  	was so full of medicine that he was afraid to have me
 3	take any more, and advised a rest. After having paid
  	out a small fortune, I was no better, and very much
  	discouraged. 
 6	    Two years ago, having failed in business, I applied to
  	one of my patrons for a furnished room where I could
  	meet the few I still had left. This lady, who is a Christian
 9	Scientist, loaned me Science and Health, and because
  	she asked me so often how I was getting on with the
  	book, I began reading it. I also attended the Wednes-
12	day evening meetings which I found very interesting. 
  	After hearing the testimonies at the meetings, I decided
  	to speak to some practitioner about these spots, but
15	not until I had at least a hundred dollars on hand, be-
  	cause I thought I would require that amount for treat-
  	ments, as I had been accustomed to paying high prices. 
18	I had not inquired about prices, and in fact did not speak
  	to any one about my intentions, because I felt sensitive
  	on this subject. When I had read about half of Science
21	and Health, I missed the spots, and upon searching
  	could find no trace of them. They had entirely dis-
  	appeared without treatment. In a few weeks the read-
24	ing of that book had accomplished what materia medica
  	had failed to accomplish in ten years. It is impossible
  	to express the feeling of relief and happiness which came
27	over me then. — C. K., Astoria, N. Y. 


  	A CONVINCING INVESTIGATION 

  	    While I have testified to those around me and in many
30	localities, of my healing in Christian Science, I feel that
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   651


 1	it is high time I put the candle in the candlestick where
  	all who will may see. My earliest recollection was a day
 3	of suffering, — a physical inheritance from my mother,
  	which gave simple interest for a time until years ad-
  	vanced and compound interest was added. My father
 6	was a physician, and material remedies were used for
  	my mother without avail, consequently his confidence
  	in them for me was shaken, — in fact he often told me
 9	it was better to suffer without medicine than become a
  	chronic doser, without pain. 
  	    I began teaching in early life and continued for more
12	than twenty years, and during that time not a day passed
  	without pain, or fear of pain, and only for my innate
  	love of life it would have become an intolerable burden. 
15	For five years oatmeal was my chief food and I became
  	almost as attached to it as Kaspar Hauser to his crust. 
  	I was early taught to have faith in God, and many times
18	was relieved of pain only to have it appear again in an
  	aggravated form. 
  	    At last my heart cried out for the living God, and
21	the answer came by one of His messengers, who told
  	me of Christian Science. I replied that I believed God
  	could heal, but that I had no faith in the healing of Chris-
24	tian Science, but would like to investigate its theology,
  	as it might aid in giving me some clue to the meaning
  	of life. For three years I had searched the works of
27	the most scientific writers to find the origin of life; many
  	times I would think I had traced it to the beginning,
  	but it would elude my grasp every time. One day in
30	talking with my friend, she said she would like to loan
  	me the textbook, Science and Health, which I very will-
  	ingly accepted. Not long afterward I felt a severe
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   652


 1	attack of suffering. I opened the book for the first
  	time and found a paragraph near the middle which
 3	attracted my attention. I read the same paragraph over
  	and over for nearly two hours. When the tea bell rang
  	I closed the book and I shall never forget my per-
 6	ception of the new heaven and the new earth, — every-
  	thing in nature that I could see seemed to have been
  	washed and made clean. The flowers that I have
 9	always loved so much, and that from childhood had
  	told me such sweet stories, now spoke to me of the
  	All-in-all, the hearts of my friends seemed kinder, — I
12	had touched the hem of the garment of healing. 
  	    I ate my supper that evening forgetful of the prepa-
  	rations I had made for suffering, and when the next
15	day began I was more zealous of good work than ever
  	before. Since closing Science and Health at my first
  	reading I have never been able to find the paragraph
18	which I had read so many times over, the words seemed
  	to have slipped away from me, but my joy knew no
  	bounds at having found the pearl of great price. By
21	the continued reading of the book I was entirely
  	healed, and for fourteen years I have not seen a day
  	of physical suffering. — Miss L. M., Rome, N. Y. 


24	DEAFNESS AND DROPSY HEALED 

  	    I had been deaf from childhood. I suffered intensely
  	after eating, and dropsy was another of my complaints. 
27	This, with consumption, caused one doctor to say, "It
  	puzzles me; I have never seen such a case before as
  	yours." 
30	    I met a friend who had been cured in Christian
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   653


 1	Science, and she said, "Try Christian Science." I got
  	a copy of Science and Health and in three weeks I
 3	was entirely cured. I felt uplifted. It seemed as if
  	God's arms were around and about me. I felt as if
  	heaven had come down to earth for me. After five
 6	years of suffering can any one wonder at my unspeak-
  	able gratitude? — A. B., Pittsburgh, Pa. 


  	GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS 

 9	    In 1894 I began the study of Christian Science. At
  	that time I was greatly in need of its healing truth. 
  	For a number of years previous I had been a semi-
12	invalid with no hope of ever being well and strong
  	again. Several years before this time I had undergone
  	an operation which resulted in peritonitis. For three
15	years previous to my study of Science and Health
  	by Mrs. Eddy, I was scarcely ever free from headache
  	caused by the weakened and diseased condition of the
18	internal organs. At the time I began the study of
  	Christian Science I was taking five kinds of medicine. 
  	    I began to read Science and Health, and did not
21	take treatment, for I thought, "If this is truth, I shall
  	be healed; if it is not, I shall be able to detect it,
  	and will have nothing to do with it." I became a
24	devoted student and gradually my bodily diseases left
  	me, — I was free, and since that time, nearly ten
  	years ago, neither my two children nor myself have
27	taken any medicine; and our understanding of truth
  	has been able to meet and overcome any suggestion of
  	illness. 
30	    I was a devoted member of an orthodox church,
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   654


 1	but as I grew older I began to question my beliefs,
  	and to my questions I could find no satisfactory an-
 3	swer. I became dissatisfied and finally ceased attend-
  	ing church. I could not accept the idea of God taught
  	there, and at last my friends looked sadly upon me as
 6	an atheist. There I stood until I learned to know God
  	as revealed in Science and Health, and then all my
  	questionings were answered. In my girlhood I had
 9	always prayed to the God I held in mind, and when
  	the shadows of sickness, pain, and death came to my
  	family, I prayed as only those can who know that if
12	He helps not, there is none; but my prayers were
  	unanswered. Then I closed my Bible, saying, "There
  	is a mistake somewhere, perhaps some time I may
15	know." 
  	    Only those who know the attitude of mind that I
  	was in can understand the joy that came to me as I
18	began to learn of God in Christian Science, and of my
  	relation to Him. 
  	    Many proofs of the healing power of Truth and of
21	His protecting care throng my thoughts. Seven years
  	ago, when we were in a far distant country, where
  	Christian Science was then unknown, my little daughter
24	came in one morning from her school, saying, "Mother,
  	I have measles; twenty of the girls are sick in bed and I
  	am afraid they will put me there also." Her face, hands,
27	and chest were covered with a deep red rash, throat sore,
  	and eyes inflamed. We began immediately to do our work
  	in Science and at night, when I left her at the door of the
30	college, her face was clear, her eyes bright, and all fear
  	destroyed. That was the end of the disease. — F. M. P.,
  	Boston, Mass. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   655


 1	A JOYFUL EXPERIENCE 

  	    In love and gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy, the
 3	interpreter of Jesus' beautiful teachings, I wish to tell
  	of some of the benefits which I have received from
  	Christian Science. It is a little over a year since
 6	Science found me in a deplorable condition, physically
  	as well as mentally. I had ailments of many years'
  	standing, — chronic stomach trouble, severe eye trouble,
 9	made almost unbearable from the constant fear of
  	losing my sight (a fate which had befallen my
  	mother), also a painful rupture of twenty-five years'
12	standing. These ailments, combined with unhappy
  	conditions in my home, made me very despondent. I
  	had entirely lost my belief in an all-merciful God, and
15	I did not know where to turn for help. At that time
  	Christian Science was brought to my notice, and I shall
  	never forget the sublime moment when I perceived that
18	an all-loving Father is always with me. Forgotten was
  	all sorrow and worry, and after four weeks' reading in
  	Science and Health all my ailments had disappeared. 
21	I am to-day a healthy, contented woman. 
  	    All this has come to pass in one short year, and my
  	earnest desire is to be more and more worthy to be
24	called a child of God. This is in loving gratitude for
  	an understanding of this glorious truth. — Mrs. R. J.,
  	Chicago, Ill. 


27	AN EVER-PRESENT HELP 

  	    It is a year since I began to read Science and Health,
  	and I will now try to outline what a knowledge of its
30	teachings has done for me. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   656


 1	    My condition was then very trying; my eyes, which
  	had caused me much trouble since childhood, were
 3	very painful. For these I had been treated by some
  	of the best specialists in my native land, and after
  	coming to the United States I had been doctored
 6	much and had worn glasses for four years. I also had
  	catarrh, for which I had taken much medicine without
  	being relieved. In addition to this I was an excessive
 9	smoker, using tobacco in some form almost constantly. 
  	I had contracted a smoker's heart, and used liquors
  	freely. 
12	    The one who brought to me that which I now prize
  	so highly, was a book agent. I told him that I should
  	be forced to leave my trade on account of my eyes. 
15	He then told me of having been healed of a cancer,
  	through Christian Science treatment. He showed me
  	a copy of Science and Health, which had the signs of
18	much use, and after being assured that if I did my part
  	I would be healed of all my diseases, I sent for a copy of
  	the book. 
21	    My recovery was very rapid, for after reading the
  	book only three weeks I was completely healed of the
  	tobacco habit. I will say, in regard to this healing,
24	that it did not require even as much as a resolution
  	on my part. I was smoking a cigar, while reading
  	Science and Health, when all the desire to continue
27	smoking left me, and I have never had a desire to use
  	tobacco in any form since then. My eyes were the
  	next to manifest the influence of the new knowledge
30	gained, and had soon so far recovered that I could go
  	about my work with ease, and I have had no more
  	use for glasses. To-day my heart is normal, the catarrh
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   657


 1	has totally disappeared, and I am not addicted to the
  	use of liquor. 
 3	    Christian Science has proved to be an ever-present
  	help, not only in overcoming physical ailments, but in
  	business and daily life. It has also overcome a great
 6	sense of fear. The Bible, which I regarded with
  	suspicion, has become my guide, and Christianity has
  	become a sweet reality, because the Christian Science
 9	textbook has indeed been a "Key to the Scriptures" and
  	has breathed through the Gospel pages a sweet sense of
  	harmony. — A. F., Sioux City, Iowa. 


12	SEVERE EYE TROUBLE OVERCOME 

  	    After hearing Christian Science lightly spoken of,
  	from a Christian pulpit, I decided to go to one of the
15	services and hear for myself. From infancy I had
  	been devoted to my church, and as soon as I was old
  	enough I was ever active in the work. Feeling it to
18	be my duty to attend every service held in my own
  	church, I took advantage of the Wednesday evening
  	meetings. My first visit was not my last, I am thank-
21	ful to say, for I saw immediately that these people
  	not only preached Christianity, but practised and lived
  	it. At that time I was wearing glasses and had worn
24	them for sixteen years. At times I suffered the most
  	intense pain, and for this phase of the trouble, one
  	specialist after another had been consulted. All gave
27	me very much the same advice; each one urged ex-
  	treme carefulness and gave me glasses that seemed to
  	relieve for a time. None of them held out any hope
30	that my sight would ever be restored, saying that the
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   658


 1	defect had existed since infancy, and that in time I should
  	be blind. 
 3	    The thought of blindness was very distressing to me,
  	but I tried to bear it with Christian resignation, since
  	I thought that God had seen fit to afflict me; but since
 6	I have learned that He is a loving Father, who gives
  	only good, I regret that I ever charged Him with my
  	affliction. I had no treatment, but I read Science and
 9	Health, and my eyes were healed and glasses laid aside. 
  	I can never find words to express my thanks to our dear
  	Leader, through whose teachings my sight has been re-
12	gained. I can truthfully say that "whereas I was blind,
  	now I see" — through an understanding of Truth I
  	have found my sight perfect as God gave it. — Miss
15	B. S., Wilmington, N. C. 


  	A TESTIMONY FROM IRELAND 

  	    It is with a heart full of love and gratitude to God,
18	and to our dear Leader, that I send this testimony to
  	the Field. I had never been a strong girl; had always
  	been subject to colds and chills, and suffered all my
21	life from a delicate throat. Seven years ago I had a
  	very severe attack of rheumatic fever and subsequently
  	two less severe ones. These left all sorts of evils be-
24	hind them, — debility, chronic constipation, and several
  	others, so that with these ills my life was often a
  	burden to me and I used to think I never should re-
27	ceive relief or health. I had also lost all love for
  	God and faith in Him. I could not accept a God who,
  	as I then believed, visited sickness and sorrow upon
30	His children as a means for drawing them to Him. 
  

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   659


1	I was in this state of mind and body when Christian
  	Science found me. A dear friend, seeing my suffering,
 3	presented the truth to me, and though at first I did not
  	believe that there could be healing for me, the Chris-
  	tian Scientists' God seemed to be the one I had been
 6	looking for all my life. I began to read Science and
  	Health, and shall never forget my joy at finding that
  	I could love and trust God. I took to studying the
 9	Bible, and read nothing but Science and Health and
  	other Christian Science literature for a year. After
  	studying the "little book" for about six weeks, I one
12	day realized that I was a well woman, that I had taken
  	no medicine for three weeks, and that my body was
  	perfectly harmonious. The reading of Science and
15	Health had healed me. The wonderful joy and spirit-
  	ual uplifting which came to me then no words of mine
  	can describe. I had also suffered from astigmatism
18	and had for several years been obliged to use special
  	glasses when reading or working, and could never use
  	my eyes for more than half an hour; but from the first
21	reading of Science and Health I found that I could read
  	in any light and for any length of time without the slight-
  	est discomfort. I am not only grateful for the physi-
24	cal healing but for the mental regeneration. I rejoice
  	that I am now able to help others who are sick and sor-
  	rowing. — E. E. L., Curragh Camp, County Kildare,
27	Ireland. 


  	THE TEXTBOOK MAKES OPERATION UNNECESSARY 

  	    In the early part of the year 1895 my physician said I
30	must undergo a surgical operation in order ever to be well. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   660


 1	While in great fear, and dreading the operation, a kind
  	neighbor called, and after telling me of Christian Science
 3	gave me a copy of Science and Health. She said I must
  	put aside all medicine, and by reading faithfully she knew
  	I could be healed. The book became my constant com-
 6	panion, and in a short time I was healed. Besides the
  	relief from an operation, I was completely healed of severe
  	headaches and stomach trouble. Physicians could give
 9	me no help for either of these ailments. For ten years I
  	have not used medicine of any kind, and have not missed
  	a Christian Science service on account of sickness during
12	this period. I am perfectly well. To say that I am grate-
  	ful to God for all this does not express my feelings. The
  	physical healing was wonderful, but the understanding
15	given me of God, and the ability to help others out-
  	weigh all else. I also love our dear Leader. — Mrs.
  	V. I. B., Concord, N. H. 


18	KIDNEY DISEASE AND EYE TROUBLE HEALED 

  	    Early in 1904 I was teaching in a private boarding-
  	school. I was a very unhappy, discontented woman; I
21	had kidney disease, besides sore eyes, and my general
  	health was very bad. The doctor said that the climate
  	did not suit me, and that I certainly should have a change. 
24	The best thing, he said, was to go back to France (my
  	own country); but I did not like to leave the school, so I
  	struggled on until July, when we went travelling for a
27	month, but I came home worse than ever. I had a lot
  	of worry, one disappointment after another, and I often
  	thought that life was not worth living. In September,
30	1904, we heard for the first time of Christian Science
  

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   661


1	through a girl who was attending our boarding-school,
  	and who was healed through Christian Science treatment. 
 3	We bought the textbook, "Science and Health with Key
  	to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and what a revelation
  	it was and is to us; it is indeed the fountain of Truth. I
 6	had read Science and Health but a very short time when
  	I took off my glasses, began to sleep well, and soon found
  	myself well in mind and body. Besides this, it has brought
 9	harmony into our school, where there had been discord,
  	and everything is changed for the better. I cannot de-
  	scribe the happiness that has come to me through Chris-
12	tian Science; I can only exclaim with the psalmist: "Bless
  	the Lord, O my soul;" and may God bless Mrs. Eddy. 
  	    My one aim now is to live Christian Science, not in words
15	only, but in deeds; loving God more and my neighbor as
  	myself, and following meekly and obediently all our
  	Leader's teachings. Words cannot express my gratitude
18	to Mrs. Eddy for Christian Science. — S. A. K., Van-
  	couver, B. C. 


  	DISEASE OF BOWELS HEALED 

21	    When I first heard of Christian Science I had been
  	afflicted for nine years with a very painful disease of the
  	bowels, which four physicians failed even to diagnose,
24	all giving different causes for the dreadful sufferings I
  	endured. The last physician advised me to take no more
  	medicine for these attacks, as drugs would not reach the
27	cause, or do any good. About this time I heard of
  	Christian Science, and had the opportunity of reading
  	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
30	Eddy, a few minutes every day for about a week, and I
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   662


 1	was thereby healed. In looking back I found I had not
  	suffered in the least from the time I began reading this
 3	book. It has been nearly seventeen years since this won-
  	derful healing, and I have had no return of the disease. 
  	My gratitude is endless and can be best expressed by
 6	striving mightily to walk in the path our Leader has so
  	lovingly shown us in Science and Health. — Mrs.
  	J. W. C., Scranton, Pa. 


 9	HEALED BY READING THE TEXTBOOK 

  	    After doctoring about a year, I was obliged to give
  	up school and was under medical care for two years;
12	but grew worse instead of better. I was then taken to
  	specialists, who pronounced my case incurable, saying
  	I was in the last stages of kidney disease and could
15	live only a short time. Shortly afterward my uncle
  	gave me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to
  	the Scriptures," and asked me to study it. After study-
18	ing a short time I was able to walk a distance of several
  	miles, which I had not been able to do for three years. 
  	I also laid aside glasses which I had worn seven years,
21	having been told I would become blind if my eyes did
  	not receive proper care. It is over a year since I re-
  	ceived God's blessing, and I am now enjoying perfect
24	health and happiness. I have never had my glasses on
  	since I first began reading Science and Health, and I have
  	not used any medicine. — L. R., Spring Valley, Minn. 


27	A TESTIMONY FROM SCOTLAND 

  	    I came to Christian Science purely for physical healing. 
  	I was very ill and unhappy; very cynical and disbeliev-
30	ing in regard to what I heard of God and religion. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   663


 1	I tried to live my life in my own way and put religion
  	aside. I was a great believer in fate and in will-power,
 3	and thought to put them in the place of God, with
  	the consequence that I was led to do many rash and
  	foolish things. I am now thankful to say that my out-
 6	look on life is entirely changed; I have proved God's
  	wisdom and goodness so often that I am willing and
  	thankful to know my future is in His hands and that
 9	all things must work out for the best. I have found a
  	God whom I can love and worship with my whole
  	heart, and I now read my Bible with interest and
12	understanding. 
  	    I was healed of very bad rheumatism simply by read-
  	ing Science and Health. I had tried many medicines,
15	also massage, with no result, and the doctors told me
  	that I would always suffer from this disease, as it
  	was inherited, and also because I had rheumatic fever
18	when a child. I suffered day and night, and nothing
  	relieved me until Science proved to me the falseness
  	of this belief by removing it. I gave up all the medi-
21	cines I was taking and have never touched any since,
  	and that is more than two years ago. Before this I
  	had often tried to do without a medicine that I had
24	taken every day for ten years, but was always ill and had
  	to return to it, until I found out that one Mind is the only
  	medicine, and then I was freed from the suffering. 
27	    I had also suffered constantly from bilious attacks,
  	colds, and a weak chest, and had been warned not to
  	be out in wet weather, etc., but now, I am glad to say,
30	I am quite free from all those material laws and go
  	out in all sorts of weather. — R. D. F., Edinburgh,
  	Scotland. 


 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   664


 1	CURING BETTER THAN ENDURING 

  	    For eight years I was a great sufferer from weak
 3	lungs and after being treated by ten different physi-
  	cians, in the States of Illinois, Missouri, and Colo-
  	rado, I was told there was no hope of my recovery
 6	from what they pronounced tuberculosis, which was
  	hereditary, my father having been afflicted with it. I
  	was greatly emaciated and hardly able to be about. 
 9	My general condition was aggravated by what the doc-
  	tors said was paralysis of the bowels. Three physi-
  	cians so diagnosed it at different times, and assured
12	my husband that I could never get more than tem-
  	porary relief. This indeed I found difficult to obtain,
  	in spite of my almost frantic efforts. At times I was
15	nearly insane from suffering, and after eight years of
  	doctoring I found myself steadily growing worse. For
  	four years I did not have a normal action of the bowels,
18	and it was only by extreme effort and by resort to pow-
  	erful drugs or mechanical means, with resultant suffering,
  	that any action whatever could be brought about. 
21	    I had heard nothing of the curative power of Chris-
  	tian Science, and only to oblige a friend I went one
  	night, about three years ago, to one of their mid-week
24	testimonial meetings, in Boulder, Colorado. I was much
  	impressed by what I heard there, and determined at once
  	to investigate this strange religion, in the hope that it
27	might have something good for me. I bought the text-
  	book, Science and Health, and from the first I found
  	myself growing stronger and better, both physically and
30	mentally, as I acquired a better understanding and en-
  	deavored to put into practice what I learned. In one week
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   665


 1	I was able to get along better without drugs than I had for
  	years with them, and before three months had passed I
 3	was better than I had been any time in my life, for I
  	had always suffered more or less from bowel trouble. 
  	Since that time I have taken no medicine whatever, and
 6	rely wholly upon Christian Science. My lungs are now
  	sound, my bowels normally active, my general health
  	excellent, and I am able to endure without fatigue
 9	tasks that before would have prostrated me. The
  	study of our textbook was the sole means of my healing. 
  	 — L. M. St. C., Matachin, Canal Zone, Panama. 


12	SEVERE ECZEMA DESTROYED 

  	    It is only two years since I came from darkness into
  	the light of Christian Science, and to me the spiritual
15	uplifting has been wonderful, to say nothing of the
  	physical healing. Words cannot express my gratitude
  	for benefits I have received in that time. For five
18	years I suffered with that dreaded disease, eczema, all
  	over my body. Five doctors said there was no help
  	for me. The suffering seemed as terrible as the hell
21	fire that I had been taught to believe in. When Christian
  	Science came to me two years ago through a dear friend,
  	she gave me a copy of Science and Health and asked
24	me to read it. I told her that I would, for I was like a
  	drowning man grasping at a straw. I had been a Bible
  	student for twenty-eight years, but when I commenced
27	reading Science and Health with the Bible I was healed
  	in less than a week. I never had a treatment. A case
  	of measles was also destroyed in twenty-four hours after
30	it appeared. — Mrs. M. B. G., Vermilion, Ohio. 


 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   666


 1	SCIENCE AND HEALTH A PRICELESS BOON 

  	    I am a willing witness to the healing power of Chris-
 3	tian Science, having had a lifetime's battle with dis-
  	ease and medical experiments. Various doctors finally
  	admitted that they had exhausted their resources, and
 6	could only offer me palliatives, saying that a cure was
  	impossible. I had paralysis of the bowels, frequent
  	sick headaches with unutterable agony, and my mortal
 9	career was nearly brought to an end by a malignant
  	type of yellow fever. Many were the attending evils of
  	this physical inharmony, but God confounds the wis-
12	dom of men, for while studying Science and Health
  	two years ago, the veil of ignorance was lifted and
  	perfect health was shown to me to be my real con-
15	dition, and to such there is no relapse. The constant
  	use of glasses, which were apparently a necessity to
  	me for years, was proven needless, and they were laid
18	aside. Mrs. Eddy has made Scripture reading a never-
  	failing well of comfort to me. By her interpretation
  	"the way of the Lord" is made straight to me and
21	mine. It aids us in our daily overcoming of the tyr-
  	anny of the flesh and its rebellion against the blessed
  	leading of Christ, Truth. The daily study of the Bible
24	and our textbook is bringing more and more into our con-
  	sciousness the power of God unto salvation. — J. C.,
  	Manatee, Fla. 


27	A CRITIC CONVINCED 

  	    With gratitude to God I acknowledge my lifelong
  	debt to Christian Science. In 1895 I attended my first
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   667


 1	Christian Science meeting, and was deeply impressed
  	with the earnestness of the people and the love re-
 3	flected, but as for the spiritual healing of the physical
  	body, I did not believe such a thing to be possible. 
  	I bought Science and Health and studied it to be
 6	able to dispute intelligently with the supposedly de-
  	luded followers of Christian Science. I pursued the
  	study carefully and thoroughly, and I have had abun-
 9	dant reason since to be glad that I did, for through this
  	study, and the resultant understanding of my rela-
  	tion to God, I was healed of a disease with which I
12	had been afflicted since childhood and for which there
  	was no known remedy. Surely my experience has
  	been the fulfilling in part of the Scripture: "He sent
15	His Word and healed them, and delivered them from
  	their destructions." I believe that Science and Health
  	reveals the Word referred to by David. — C. A. B. B.,
18	Kansas City, Mo. 


  	BORN AGAIN 

  	    It was in April, 1904, that I first heard the "still,
21	small voice" of the Christ and received healing through
  	Christian Science; and the blessings have been so
  	many since, that it would take too much space to
24	name them. Reared from childhood in an intellectual
  	atmosphere, my paternal grandfather having been an
  	orthodox minister of the old school for forty years,
27	and my father a deep student, ever seeking for the
  	truth of all things, I began early to ponder and to
  	study into the meaning of life, and came to the con-
30	clusion before I was twenty that though God probably
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   668


 1	existed in some remote place, still it was impossible to
  	connect Him with my present living. My highest
 3	creed, therefore, became, "Do right because it is right
  	and not for fear of being punished." Then began the
  	suffering. Sorrow after sorrow followed each other
 6	in rapid succession; for ten long years there was no
  	rest, the road was indeed long and hard and had no
  	turning, until finally the one thing that had stood by
 9	me all through the trials, namely, my health, gave
  	way, and with that went my last hope. But the last
  	hour of the night had come, the dawn of day was at
12	hand; a dear friend left Science and Health upon my
  	piano one day, saying that I would gain much good by
  	reading it. 
15	    Glad to get away from my own poor thoughts, I
  	opened the "little book" and began to read. I had
  	read only a short time when such a wonderful trans-
18	formation took place! I was renewed; born again. 
  	Mere words cannot tell the story of the mighty up-
  	lifting that carried me to the very gates of heaven. 
21	When I began to read the book, life was a burden, but
  	before I had finished reading it the first time, I was doing
  	all my housework and doing it easily; and since that
24	glorious day I have been a well woman. My health
  	is splendid, and I am striving to let my light so shine
  	that others may be led to the truth. There have been
27	some mighty struggles with error, and I have learned
  	that we cannot reach heaven with one long stride or
  	easily drift inside the gate, but that the "asking" and
30	the "seeking" and the "knocking" must be earnest and
  	persistent. 
  	    For a long time I was always looking back to see if
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   669


 1	the error had gone, until one day when I realized
  	that to catch a glimpse of what spiritual sense means
 3	I must put corporeal sense behind me. I then set to
  	work in earnest to find the true way. I opened
  	Science and Health and these words were before me,
 6	"If God were understood, instead of being merely be-
  	lieved, this understanding would establish health" (p. 203). 
  	I saw that I must get the right understanding of God! 
 9	I closed the book and with head bowed in prayer I
  	waited with longing intensity for some answer. How
  	long I waited I do not know, but suddenly, like a won-
12	derful burst of sunlight after a storm, came clearly
  	this thought, "Be still, and know that I am God." I
  	held my breath — deep into my hungering thought
15	sank the infinite meaning of that "I." All self-
  	conceit, egotism, selfishness, everything that constitutes
  	the mortal "I," sank abashed out of sight. I trod, as
18	it were, on holy ground. Words are inadequate to con-
  	vey the fulness of that spiritual uplifting, but others
  	who have had similar experiences will understand. 
21	    From that hour I have had an intelligent consciousness
  	of the ever-presence of an infinite God who is only good.
  	 — C. B. G., Hudson, Mass. 


24	A RESTLESS SENSE OF EXISTENCE DESTROYED 

  	    Through reading Science and Health and the illu-
  	mination which followed, I was healed of ulceration of
27	the stomach and kindred troubles, a restless sense of
  	existence, agnosticism, etc. The torture I endured with
  	the stomach trouble I will not attempt to describe. The
30	attending physician declared that I could live but a short
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   670


 1	time, and I felt there would be a limit to my endur-
  	ance of the torture, but the disease was dissipated into
 3	nothingness through Christian Science, which brought
  	me peace. 
  	    Like many others I had been seemingly lost in the
 6	sea of error, without a compass, yet earnestly and hon-
  	estly seeking a haven. I had investigated all kinds of
  	religions and philosophies that came under my notice,
 9	with the exception of Christian Science, which was
  	not then deemed worthy of inquiry, and yet it held
  	the very truth I was searching for — the light which
12	"shineth in the darkness; and the darkness com-
  	prehended it not." Three years of stubborn resist-
  	ance to Truth, with increasing suffering, followed — 
15	then the light came, and with it a new experience. 
  	Now, after nine years of Christian Science experience,
  	under severe tests, it can be truthfully said that it
18	has not failed me in any hour of need. — J. F. J.,
  	Cincinnati, Ohio. 


  	MORALLY AND PHYSICALLY HEALED 

21	    I did not accept Christian Science on account of any
  	healing of my own, but after seeing my mother, who was
  	fast drifting toward helplessness with rheumatism, restored
24	to perfect health with only a few treatments in Christian
  	Science, I thought surely this must be the truth as Jesus
  	taught and practised it, and if so it was what I had been
27	longing for. 
  	    This was about ten years ago and was the first I had
  	ever heard of Christian Science. We soon got a copy
30	of Science and Health and I began in the right way to
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   671


 1	see if Christian Science were the truth. I had no thought
  	of studying it for bodily healing; in fact, I did not think
 3	I needed it for that, but my soul cried out for something
  	I had not yet found. This book was indeed a key to the
  	Scriptures. 
 6	    It was not long after I began reading before I dis-
  	covered that my eyes were good and strong, I could
  	read as much as I wished, and at any time, which was
 9	something I could not do before, as my eyes had always
  	been weak. The doctors said they never would be very
  	strong, and that if I did not wear glasses, I might lose
12	my sight altogether. I never gave up to wearing glasses,
  	and now, thanks to Christian Science, I do not need them,
  	my work for the past two years as a railway mail clerk
15	being a good test. At the same time my eyes were healed,
  	I also noticed that I was entirely healed of another ail-
  	ment which had been with me all my life, and which was
18	believed to be inherited. Since that time my growth
  	has seemed to me slow, yet when I look back and view
  	myself as I was before Christian Science found me, and
21	compare it with my life as it now is, I can only close my
  	eyes to the picture and rejoice that I have been "born
  	again" and that I have daily been putting off "the
24	old man with his deeds," and putting on "the new
  	man." 
  	    Some of the many things that have been overcome
27	through the study of Science and Health, and through
  	realizing and practising the truth it teaches, are pro-
  	fanity, the use of tobacco, a very quick temper, which
30	made both myself and those around me at times very
  	miserable, and such thoughts as malice, revenge, etc.
  	 — O. L. R., Fort Worth, Tex. 


 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   672


 1	HEALTH AND UNDERSTANDING GAINED 

  	    Most of my boyhood days were spent in the hands
 3	of physicians. From birth I was considered a very
  	weakly child, but my mother was brave, and being
  	much devoted to me did everything within her knowl-
 6	edge and power for my comfort. Sickness and medi-
  	cine were continually before me, and by the time I
  	reached my teens I thought I knew a material remedy
 9	for every ill. I continued in my delusion, because I
  	was never told the real cause of my trouble. Besides
  	being under a leading specialist for two years, I was
12	also an outdoor patient at a noted hospital, but I was
  	not healed. It is wonderful how the "little ones" are
  	cared for in the face of all these seeming difficulties. 
15	I always used the prayers that I had been taught, and
  	as I grew older I began to ask for wisdom. Little by
  	little I gained a desire for freedom, and my prayers
18	finally led me to the truth. The first week that I
  	heard of Christian Science, I visited the home of dear
  	Christian Science friends, and was at once refreshed
21	by their purity of thought and example. I bought
  	a copy of Science and Health, and, after studying it
  	a little while with the Bible, I saw that if the Bible
24	was true, Science and Health must also be true. I
  	began to demonstrate over my physical and mental
  	condition, and as soon as the fear and pain began
27	to leave me I felt encouraged to go on. I was healed,
  	and stopped complaining. I kept on studying our
  	textbook, and when I got an understanding in a
30	small degree of the Science of Mind, my first thought
  	was to help others. I was guided where I could pro-
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   673


 1	gress in Science, and was no longer "carried about with
  	every wind of doctrine," but held to Principle as closely
 3	as possible. From the time the healing came into my
  	consciousness, the desire for material remedies left me,
  	because Christian Science at once pointed out the way to
 6	get at the cause of discord and disease. All that I had to
  	give up were the false beliefs of mortal mind. Christian
  	Science then taught me to love the church, and to appre-
 9	ciate what it had already done for mankind. I often
  	thought of the old adage, "Charity begins at home,"
  	and after three years' preparation I felt able to take Chris-
12	tian Science to my home, where it found, in due time,
  	ready acceptance and willing disciples. This gave me
  	even greater joy than my own healing. The more good
15	I saw accomplished, the more love I had for the truth. 
  	Christian Science changed my course from the first, and
  	gave me a nobler aim and purpose in life. I was not
18	so easily influenced by other people's shortcomings,
  	when I learned that evil has neither personality nor place. 
  	I was not so ready to take offence, when I found out the
21	way to work unselfishly for the upbuilding of the Cause.
  	 — A. E. J., Toledo, Ohio. 


  	AN EVER-PRESENT HELP FOUND 

24	    On the 23rd of March, 1900, I received from one of my
  	daughters a copy of Science and Health on my seventy-first
  	birthday. Although a constant reader of all kinds of papers
27	and books, I had never heard anything of Christian Sci-
  	ence, except a short notice that spring in a San Francisco
  	newspaper, from an orthodox clergyman, referring to the
30	Christian Science people in not very complimentary style. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   674


 1	    In Mrs. Eddy's book I came across a great deal of
  	thought that was not readily understood at the first read-
 3	ing, but by continued and careful study, and a good deal
  	of help from my knowledge of chemistry and natu-
  	ral philosophy, I soon shook off the belief of sensation
 6	in matter, — the so-called elementary substance. One
  	afternoon I put the belt on my circular saw to cut blocks
  	of firewood and also to split a small stick of frame tim-
 9	ber. In doing this the stick closed and pinched the saw. 
  	I picked up a small wooden wedge and tried to drive
  	it into the saw kerf, but a bit of ice let the stick on to the
12	back of the saw and instantly it flew, with heavy force,
  	into my face, and bouncing off my left cheek fell about
  	twenty feet off on the snow. The blood spattered on the
15	snow next the saw table, and on feeling with my hand
  	there were two wounds, one on the lock of the jaw and
  	another forward, as big as a dollar, on the cheek bone. 
18	"Now," I thought to myself, "there is a case of surgery
  	for you," and without further ceremony, I began to
  	treat the case to the best of my knowledge, with the
21	result that the bleeding stopped almost instantly, and
  	so did a thumping pain, which had commenced. I
  	paid no more attention to the matter, but finished my
24	work, and then went to supper. When I washed my
  	face, I felt a big lump on the jawbone where the block
  	of wood struck, but after my usual reading I went to
27	bed and slept all night until near daylight, when a pain
  	on the right side awoke me. On feeling with my hand
  	there was another big lump on the right side, but I
30	treated it and went to sleep again. I never lost an
  	hour from the hurt, although I found out that my jaw
  	was broken. There is no scar, only a little red spot on
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   675


 1	the cheek, and the lumps on the bone have long since
  	disappeared. 
 3	    In summing up the benefits I have received from
  	the reading of Science and Health, I can but refer to
  	a condition of sickness dating back to the war (1862),
 6	when chronic and malignant diarrhoea came near
  	making an end of my material existence. My hearing,
  	also, was seriously impaired from the effect of cannon
 9	firing at Shiloh, but it has come back to me, and where
  	I formerly dared not eat an orange, or grapes, I can now
  	eat anything without being hurt. My peace of mind
12	is giving me a rest which I never experienced before
  	during my life, and I have ceased to look away off for
  	the divine presence that was always near, though I did
15	not know it. — L. B., Baldy, N. M. 


  	MANY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TROUBLES OVERCOME 

  	    Less than a year ago, when nothing but trouble seemed
18	to encompass me, I was led to Christian Science. My
  	mother's copy of Science and Health was always lying
  	on the table, but I scarcely ever read it. One day, how-
21	ever, the mental conflict was so great I commenced read-
  	ing in the hope of obtaining peace. Every day since
  	then my companions have been the Bible and Science
24	and Health. At that time I had a very serious eruption
  	on my face, which had been there two years. We had
  	consulted several physicians, and used every remedy
27	suggested to eradicate it, but they proved useless. I
  	had given up all hopes of its ever being healed, as the
  	physician we last consulted pronounced it tuberculosis
30	of the skin and incurable. A few weeks after I com-
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   676


 1	menced reading, I was amazed to see it almost healed
  	over, and to-day my cheek is perfectly smooth, while the
 3	scar is disappearing. 
  	    In April my baby was born with only the practitioner
  	and a woman friend present. I suffered little pain, and
 6	the third day I went down-stairs. I am able to nurse
  	him, — a privilege of which I was deprived with my first
  	child. He is a picture of health, having never been
 9	sick a day since he was born. — K. E. W. L., Mt.
  	Dora, Fla. 


  	A NEW LIFE GAINED 

12	    Leaving home when a young man, I carried with me
  	a protection against the temptation of a great city, — a
  	mother's prayers and a small Bible. For a time I read
15	the Bible and prayed, but without understanding. This
  	did not suffice, and evil seemed to gain the victory. I
  	soon omitted to read my Bible; forgot to go to God in
18	prayer for guidance and help, and looked to the world
  	for that which it never has and never can give, — health,
  	peace, and joy. 
21	    Thus, years later, when Christian Science came into
  	my home, it found me prayerless, churchless, godless;
  	a home discordant, and with no thought or knowledge
24	of spiritual things. Up to this time, my wife had for
  	years been seeking health through the physicians,
  	but without success, and as a last resort had been
27	sent to Christian Science. The help received was so
  	wonderful that I commenced the study of Science and
  	Health. The first effect which I realized from the
30	reading of our textbook, was a great love for the Bible
  	and a desire to read it, something which I had not done
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   677


 1	for years. I went in silent prayer to God, that I might
  	see the light and truth which would enable me to be-
 3	come a better man. "Ye must be born again." Thus
  	again, and as a child, was I taught to pray "the effectual
  	fervent prayer" which "availeth much." In a few
 6	weeks' study of Science and Health together with the
  	Bible, and without other help, I was healed of a desire
  	for liquor, of years' standing, and of the use of tobacco. 
 9	Ten years have passed and these appetites have never
  	returned. I have never used either liquor or tobacco
  	in any form from that time to the present. Surely this
12	Scripture is fulfilled in our home: "Old things are passed
  	away; behold, all things are become new." How can
  	we estimate the value of a book, the study of which brings
15	such transformation and regeneration? Only as we
  	endeavor to live, and strive to practise what it teaches,
  	can we begin to pay our debt to God, and to her whom
18	He has sent to make plain to human understanding the
  	life and teaching of Christ Jesus. — W. H. P., Boston,
  	Mass. 


21	A VOICE FROM ENGLAND 

  	    For a number of years I was a weary woman, not ill
  	enough in health to be called an invalid, but suffering
24	more than could be told with fatigue and weakness. 
  	Feeling that this was God's will, I did not ask to be healed,
  	although I was constantly doctoring. I suffered with dys-
27	pepsia, congestion of the liver, and many other things,
  	including weak eyesight. With all the medicine, and
  	with different changes for rest, I never regained health,
30	and thought I never should, so I prayed for grace to bear
  	my cross patiently for others' sake. One day, while
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   678


 1	lying on my couch exhausted, which had become a fre-
  	quent experience, the words came to me, "Whatsoever
 3	ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." I
  	rose, knelt down and said, O God, make me well. I
  	was telling a friend this and she kindly gave me a Senti-
 6	nel. Imagine my joy when I saw the testimonies of heal-
  	ing! I believed them, remembering our Lord's words,
  	"Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have be-
 9	lieved." I obtained a copy of Science and Health and
  	before a week had passed I realized that if God was my
  	all I needed no glasses. My eyes were healed in a few
12	days, and since then I have never thought of glasses. 
  	I was also cured of dyspepsia, and nothing that I have
  	eaten has hurt me since then. The belief in health laws
15	was next destroyed, by knowing that our heavenly Father
  	did not make them, and from this has come the beautiful
  	experience of the overcoming of fatigue. 
18	    For this alone I can never be thankful enough. True
  	indeed are the words, "They shall run, and not be weary." 
  	This was more than a year ago, and I can say that not
21	once have I felt inclined to lie on the couch, nor have I
  	had a headache, although I am doing more work than
  	ever before. Fear has also been overcome in many ways.
24	 — A. L., Chelmsford, England. 


  	DEPRAVED APPETITES OVERCOME 

  	    When Christian Science first came to me, or rather,
27	when I first came to Christian Science, I did not have
  	a very bad opinion of myself. I thought I was a pretty
  	good fellow. I had no religious views. I seemed to be
30	getting along as well as, if not better than, some who
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   679


 1	professed Christianity. So I drifted along until I was
  	led to investigate Christian Science. 
 3	    As I progressed in the understanding as gained from
  	the study of both Science and Health and the Bible,
  	and commenced to know myself, I found that a great
 6	change had been wrought in me. For fifteen years I
  	had used tobacco, both chewing and smoking; for ten
  	years I had been a victim of the drink habit, sometimes
 9	to excess; I was also addicted to profanity. Christian
  	Science removed these appetites. A stomach trouble
  	and other lesser ills, such as headache, a bad temper, an
12	inordinate love of money, etc., disappeared under the
  	same benign influence. Those things that seemed to be
  	pleasure do not give me pleasure now. They were not
15	real pleasure. I have lost nothing, I have sacrificed
  	nothing; but I have gained everything, and not yet the
  	whole, for I can see plenty yet to be done. 
18	    The condition of mind before investigating and after
  	is as different as black and white. As Mrs. Eddy
  	says, "Not matter, but Mind, satisfieth." — G. B. P.,
21	Henry, S. D. 


  	CATARRH OF THE STOMACH HEALED 

  	    I should like to express my gratitude for the many
24	benefits I have received through Christian Science, and
  	to mention the great joy brought to me in the thought
  	that man is not the helpless victim of sin, disease, and
27	death. Through its teachings I have been able to over-
  	come many errors. 
  	    When Christian Science found me, one year ago
30	last April, in Chicago, I was suffering from catarrh
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   680


 1	of the stomach, which had been very persistent, and I
  	had been a slave to the cigarette habit for eighteen
 3	years. Pain and weakness had robbed me of all that
  	one holds dear. The first symptoms of the disease
  	appeared about five years ago in the form of severe
 6	cramps of the stomach, which finally developed into
  	other symptoms of that painful disease. I doctored
  	continually, my diet daily becoming more rigid, until
 9	three slices of toast became my daily allowance of food. 
  	    In this condition I left the East for my home in
  	Chicago, hoping that a change of climate might benefit
12	me. After spending six weeks there and finding no re-
  	lief, I concluded to return East. The Sunday morning
  	before leaving I picked up a Sunday paper, and glanc-
15	ing through the religious items my eyes fell on the notices
  	of Christian Science church services. Curiosity led me
  	to a service and I shall never forget that morning or the
18	surprise and joy it gave me to find that beautiful church,
  	and to know that so great a number actually believed
  	that God does heal the sick to-day. This brought a first
21	ray of hope. The evening service found me there again. 
  	Among the notices read was that of a reading room,
  	giving the location and time of opening. Monday morn-
24	ing found me there promptly, and the first book I picked
  	up was Science and Health which opened a new
  	world to me. 
27	    I had dieted so long and suffered so much that I had
  	a morbid fear of food. When I had reached and read
  	"neither food nor the stomach, without the consent of
30	mortal mind, can make one suffer" (Science and Health,
  	p. 221), I left the reading room for something to eat. I
  	found a bakery near by, and bought a bag of cakes
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   681


 1	which I ate, and shortly after I had a hearty dinner with-
  	out the least complaint from my stomach. 
 3	    From that time until now I have eaten anything that I
  	wished, and the craving for cigarettes, which I had for
  	many years, has entirely vanished. The understanding
 6	of Truth, which entirely relieved the diseased stomach,
  	healed also the morbid appetite for smoking. After
  	coming back East, I bought a copy of Science and Health,
 9	which I have read daily, and find it a continual help in
  	all the affairs of life. 
  	    In my home and at work I find this Science a com-
12	fort and source of strength. I have had many difficulties
  	in the way, but it has helped me out of them all. — W. E.
  	B., New Britain, Conn. 


15	SPINAL DISEASE HEALED 

  	    When I first heard of Christian Science, seven years
  	ago, I supposed that it was some old fad under a new
18	name. In the little Texas town where we then lived
  	there were two or three Christian Scientists who met
  	at the home of one of their number to read the Lesson-
21	Sermon. Meeting one of them one day, I asked if un-
  	believers could come to their meetings. She said that
  	they could if they wanted to. I went, expecting them
24	to do something that I could laugh at when telling my
  	friends about it. How surprised I was to find out that
  	they didn't do anything but read the Bible and another
27	book which they called Science and Health. I still
  	thought it all foolishness, but resolved to go to their meet-
  	ings until I found out all they believed. I continued to
30	go until I began to understand a little of what they knew,
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   682


 1	not what they believed; and instead of spending my
  	time telling others what a silly thing Christian Science
 3	is, I am now trying to find words to tell what a great
  	and wonderful thing it is. I have been healed of so-
  	called incurable spinal disease of ten years' standing
 6	by studying the Bible and Science and Health. Science
  	and Health has been my only teacher, and I wish to send
  	my thanks to our dear Leader. 
 9	    There are no other Scientists near where we now live,
  	but I have the Quarterly and study the lessons by myself. 
  	I have five small children, and Christian Science is in-
12	valuable to me in controlling them, and in overcoming
  	their common ills. They often help themselves and
  	each other to destroy their little hurts and fears. — Mrs.
15	M. H., Oleta, Okla. 


  	MANY TROUBLES OVERCOME 

  	    In the second chapter of First Peter, ninth verse, I
18	read "that ye should show forth the praises of him who
  	hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous
  	light." The periodicals so wisely established by our
21	Leader give us one means of showing forth the praises
  	of Truth. 
  	    From the darkness of physical pain and weariness into
24	the light of wholeness and joyousness in work and
  	living, — from the darkness of a clouded sight into the
  	light of clearer vision, — from the darkness of doubt
27	and discord into the marvellous light of the reality of
  	good, — this is what a reading of the Christian Science
  	textbook has done for me. 
30	    At the time the book was lent to me, I was teach-
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   683


 1	ing in the public schools of Chicago, and absences from
  	my work on account of illness were of frequent occurrence. 
 3	For five weeks I had been under the care of a specialist
  	for an organic trouble, and he said I would have to come
  	as many more months before a cure could be effected. 
 6	At this time, Science and Health was brought to my
  	notice. I never thought of such a thing as being healed
  	by the reading of the book, but my thought was so changed
 9	that I was healed, not only of the organic trouble, but of
  	blurred eyesight, fatigue, and a train of other discordant
  	manifestations. I did not go back to the physician
12	until four months later to pay my bill (which, by the
  	way, was more than five times the price of the Science
  	and Health I had purchased). From the time I read
15	the book I taught steadily without losing time from my
  	work. I was helped, too, with my work in many other
  	ways. 
18	    Through reading the textbook I learned that God has
  	given us strength to do all we have to do, and that it is
  	the things we do not have to do (the envying, strife, emu-
21	lating, vainglorying, and so on) that leave in their wake
  	fatigue and discord. 
  	    Gratitude to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and
24	to her faithful students, with whom I afterwards be-
  	came associated, can be expressed only by daily efforts
  	to put into practice what has been taught. — T. H. A.,
27	Madison, Wis. 


  	PREJUDICE OVERCOME 

  	    I became interested in Christian Science somewhat
30	over three years ago when in much need of help. I
  	had never been strong, and as I grew older I grew
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   684


 1	weaker and at last became so ill that life was a burden
  	to me. Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy was sent
 3	to me, in answer to prayer, as I thought. I was a little
  	afraid of all these new fads, as I thought them, but I
  	had not read far before I felt that I had found the truth
 6	which makes us free. I was healed of stomach trouble,
  	inward weakness, and bilious attacks. 
  	    One physician said I might have to undergo an opera-
 9	tion before I could get well, but, thanks to this Truth, I
  	have found that the only operation needed was the re-
  	generation of this so-called human mind by learning to
12	know God. In many cases I have been able to help
  	myself and others. 
  	    Words cannot express my thanks to Mrs. Eddy, and
15	to all who are bringing these great truths to the help of
  	the whole world. — E. E. M., Huntington, W. Va. 


  	A CONVINCING TESTIMONY 

18	    I became interested in Christian Science some five
  	years ago, the practical nature of its statements appeal-
  	ing to me, and I must say, at the outset, that with my
21	little experience I have found it all and more than I ever
  	dreamt of realizing on this plane of existence. I am
  	satisfied that I have found Truth. God is indeed to me
24	an ever-present help. 
  	    My little girl, some ten months old, was afflicted
  	with constipation. It was so severe I dreaded to go
27	out anywhere with her, as I knew not when she would
  	be taken with a convulsion. I had tried all the usual
  	remedies in such cases, but it seemed to grow more ob-
30	stinate. There was a Christian Scientist living in
  

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   685


1	the same house with us, a Scientist who let her light
  	shine, and while she said little, I felt the reflection of
 3	Love. I had no knowledge of the teachings of Chris-
  	tian Science, save that God was the physician at all
  	times. In my own way I believed He was all-power-
 6	ful, and I said to my husband one day, "I am through
  	with medicine for baby. I am just going to leave her
  	in God's care and see what He will do. I have done
 9	all I can." I did as I said, laid my burden at God's
  	feet, and did not pick it up again. In two days the
  	child was perfectly natural, and has since been free
12	from the trouble. She is now six years of age. Some
  	months later a second test came. She woke up at nine
  	o'clock at night crying and holding her ear. There
15	was to sense a gathering. I was alone. I took up my
  	Science and Health and Bible, but the more I worked
  	the louder she screamed. Error kept suggesting ma-
18	terial remedies, but I said firmly: "No; I shall not go
  	back to error. God will help me." Just then I thought
  	of my own fear, how excessive it was, and a conversation
21	I had with the Scientist who first voiced the truth to me,
  	came to mind. She said she always found it helpful
  	to treat herself and cast out her own fear before treat-
24	ing a patient. I put baby down and again took up
  	my Science and Health, and these were the words I
  	read: —  
27	    "Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. 
  	The more difficult seems the material condition to be
  	overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith
30	and the purer our love. The Apostle John says: 'There
  	is no fear in Love, but perfect Love casteth out fear' "
  	(Science and Health, p. 410). I looked up, the crying  

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   686


1	had ceased, the child was smiling, and in a few minutes
  	asked to be put to bed. There has been no further
 3	trouble of that kind. 
  	    I have since seen the power of Truth overcome error
  	of many forms, including croup, whooping-cough, ton-
 6	silitis, etc. I am thankful for all these proofs, but far
  	more grateful am I for the spiritual teaching to love, to
  	forgive, to curb my tongue, and cease my criticism.
 9	 — M. A. H., Brockton, Mass. 


  	HEALED PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY 

  	    I had been taking medicine continually for many
12	years. Finally I was taken suddenly ill and could not
  	leave my room for about two months, then I went away
  	for three months, thinking that I should come back
15	and be able to continue my work. I improved very much,
  	but the fear of quick consumption was with my doctor
  	and my family and friends, and I was warned about the
18	coming winter. Only too soon the fear manifested
  	itself. I had worked just three weeks when all the pains
  	and aches returned, and I had to go to bed as soon as I
21	got home, so there was no pleasure in living. My em-
  	ployer advised me to see my physician, and said perhaps
  	I should not work that winter. I then and there turned
24	to Christian Science. I could not afford to give up work
  	and live away from home, neither did I want to depend
  	on doctors and medicine any longer. I took the book
27	and read it on my way to work, and at noon I lay down
  	on a couch instead of going out for luncheon and fell
  	asleep. When I awoke I was a different person, all
30	pains and aches had gone, and I was free. I was so
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   687


 1	happy I could hardly contain myself; to material
  	sense it was wonderful. As I walked I kept saying,
 3	"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," and tried to un-
  	derstand "the scientific statement of being" by repeat-
  	ing portions at a time, then pondering over them. I
 6	read the book four times in succession, and every
  	time I found more and more to aid in the under-
  	standing. 
 9	    This healing was in October, 1901, with no other
  	help than Science and Health, and soon I was relieved
  	of other chronic ailments. In February I was able to
12	put away eyeglasses, which I had worn ten years and
  	a half for astigmatism. Oculists told me I would always
  	have to wear them. A month later my father asked
15	me to help him, as he was suffering so much from con-
  	stipation, dyspepsia, and neuralgia. He had been sub-
  	sisting on bran, nearly starving himself until he was most
18	miserable, and his limbs seemed so cold that they were
  	kept wrapped in blankets. I felt very humble as he
  	asked me, and told him I would have a practitioner help
21	him, as I had never treated any one; but he would not
  	consent to have any one but myself, and I finally told
  	him I would try, but that he must not hold Science respon-
24	sible if he were not benefited, for my lack of understand-
  	ing, and not Science, would be at fault. At my request
  	he read Science and Health, ate whatever he wanted,
27	and used no medicine in any form. After two treat-
  	ments I received word from him that he was healed
  	of that bondage of thirty years' standing. In view of
30	all these signs which followed my acceptance of Chris-
  	tian Science, I knew it must be true. — R. L. A.,
  	Chicago, Ill. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   688


 1	A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH 

  	    I was delicate from childhood, and my parents did
 3	not think it was possible for me to live more than a
  	few years. I lived, however, although there was not
  	much improvement in my health. Travel and change
 6	of climate brought only temporary relief, and the physi-
  	cians gave me no hope that I would ever be well. 
  	    As a last resort I began the study of Science and
 9	Health, and before I had finished reading the book I
  	realized that its author was divinely commissioned to
  	bring this spiritual message to a waiting world. Through
12	this reading my health was restored, and I was healed
  	of one disease that has been called incurable by all
  	physicians. 
15	    For this, together with the greater and higher bless-
  	ing of having the spiritual fact of being unfolded to me,
  	I am most grateful. 
18	    What shall be rendered for such benefits received and
  	made possible by the consecrated life of our revered
  	Leader? Only by following the teachings of our text-
21	book, and by loving obedience to her gentle and timely
  	admonitions can we show our true sense of gratitude.
  	 — F. H. D., De Funiak Springs, Fla. 


24	HEALED AFTER MUCH SUFFERING 

  	    A testimony given in the Journal led me to investi-
  	gate Christian Science, and I hope in return to be the
27	means of leading some one else to see the beauty of this
  	saving truth, and to learn to know God aright and
  	man's relationship to Him. I know from experience
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   689


1	that it is prejudice and misapprehension of what Christian
  	Science is, that keeps many from enjoying the blessings
 3	it bestows. 
  	    I had been taking patent medicines for several years,
  	and had been to one of the best sanitariums in this country,
 6	but was not healed, although I received some benefit, for
  	which I shall always feel grateful, for I know the physi-
  	cians did all they could for me. I sometimes thought
 9	I had exhausted all remedies, but did not give up, for
  	I felt there must be something to heal me if I could
  	find it. 
12	    When in this state of mind Christian Science came to
  	my notice, and after reading several Journals, I pur-
  	chased a copy of Science and Health. I read for several
15	days at odd times. I commenced to improve, and in
  	about a week I was healed of most of my ills, among
  	which were dyspepsia and nervous debility. 
18	    Although I had heard about Christian Science before,
  	I had never heard that the reading of the Christian
  	Science textbook had ever effected the healing of anybody. 
21	I commenced reading to find out what Christian Science
  	was, but was surprised to find myself improving, and was
  	soon assured that it was the theology of Science and
24	Health that healed me, just as it was the theology of
  	Jesus that healed the sick. 
  	    It has also proved to me that there can be no
27	Christian Science Church that does not heal the sick
  	and sinful, for healing follows as the natural result of the
  	teaching of Christian Science. The Bible has become
30	a new revelation to me, and I can read it much more
  	understandingly by the light received through the reading
  	of Science and Health. — A. F. M., Fairmont, Minn. 


 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   690


 1	THROUGH GREAT TRIBULATIONS 

  	    When I attempt to make plain what Christian Science
 3	has done for me, words fail me. For twenty years
  	I was a constant sufferer, my spine having been
  	injured when I was very young. As a little child I
 6	suffered so much that I would look up to the stars
  	and beg God, who I thought might be up there
  	somewhere, to take me away from the earth, — I was
 9	so tired. A great wall of pain seemed to separate me
  	from the pleasures enjoyed by others, and I could not
  	explain how I felt, because no one could understand. 
12	Years passed, and I saw my earthly happiness swept
  	away; my heart was broken and I did not know what
  	to do. I cried for help, day after day and night after
15	night, although I was not sure what God was, nor where
  	He was. I only knew that I suffered, and was
  	in need of help, and that there was no earthly help
18	for either mind or body. I loved purity, truth, and
  	right always, and this made evil seem a most terrible
  	reality. I was unable to cope with it, and so found
21	myself in despair. This was my condition when I com-
  	menced reading Science and Health. I was ready for
  	its message, and in about ten days there came a won-
24	derful insight into the truth which heals the sick and
  	binds up the broken-hearted. All pain left me, I had
  	a glimpse of the new heavens and the new earth, and
27	was beginning to be fed by Love divine. 
  	    I had suffered for years with insomnia. That night
  	I rested like a child, and awoke the next morning well
30	and happy. A flood of light daily illumined the pages
  	of the "little book," and the revelation it holds for all
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   691


 1	came to my waiting heart. "The peace which passeth
  	all understanding" rested upon me, and joy too deep for
 3	words transformed my life. My prayers were answered,
  	for I had found God in Christian Science. 
  	    The Bible, which I knew very little about, became
 6	my constant study, my joy, and my guide. The copy
  	which I bought at the time of my healing is marked
  	from Genesis to Revelation. It was so constantly
 9	in my hands for three years that the cover became
  	worn and the leaves loose, so it has been laid away
  	for a new one. Two and three o'clock in the morning
12	often found me poring over its pages, which grew
  	more and more sacred to me every day, and the help
  	I received therefrom was wonderful, for which I can
15	find no words to express my gratitude. — I. L., Los
  	Angeles, Cal. 


  	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
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   692


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. Money, 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
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   693


 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. 


  	DESIRE FOR LIQUOR AND TOBACCO DISAPPEARED 

  	    I first heard of Christian Science four years ago. At
12	that time drinking and smoking were my comforters. I
  	had no other companionship. I had lived almost con-
  	stantly from childhood in an evil atmosphere. Though
15	I was far from being satisfied with my condition, I failed
  	to see how to better it until I read Science and Health. 
  	I used occasionally to listen to a sermon, but sermons
18	did not give me any more comfort than I derived from
  	my pipe, hence I concluded that church-going could not
  	satisfy me and I preferred drinking and smoking. When
21	I began to read Science and Health, I saw it offered some-
  	thing substantial. After a few months' study all desire
  	for drinking and smoking disappeared. I did not give
24	them up; I made no sacrifices, I simply found some-
  	thing better. I might mention that I had smoked ever
  	since I can remember. I used to smoke years before I
27	left school, and, like most Englishmen, loved my pipe, and
  	would almost prefer to miss a meal rather than to go
  	without my smoke. I used to think it gave me comfort. 
30	    During my four years' study of Christian Science I
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   694


1	have not spent a cent for doctors or medicine, neither
  	have I lost a day from my work on account of sickness,
 3	which compares wonderfully with the previous four years. 
  	I take a great interest and pleasure in reading the Bible
  	and studying the lessons in the Quarterly. The Bible
 6	used to be a most mysterious book to me, but Science
  	and Health makes it a most precious book, making its
  	meaning clearer, plainer, and simpler. 
 9	    I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Mrs.
  	Eddy and to the friend who invited me to attend the ser-
  	vice held in the Auditorium years ago. I also wish to
12	acknowledge the benefit I have had from the Journal
  	and the Sentinel. They have helped me wonderfully. If
  	the value of Science and Health and these publications
15	were measured as business men value things, by the
  	results or benefits they bring, they certainly would be
  	priceless to me. It would be impossible to measure
18	their value, as I have got something from Science and
  	Health that all the money in the world could not buy.
  	 — H. P. H., Chicago, Ill. 


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
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   695


 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 His children
  	are really governed in peace and harmony by spiritual
18	law, and as the right understanding of it is gained, the
  	other things soon follow, bringing a peace the human
  	concept can never know. 
21	    For the last twelve years my whole time has been
  	devoted to Christian Science practice, and I have seen
  	nearly every so-called incurable disease healed by its
24	beneficent influence. God bless our dear Leader! She
  	has set before us an open door, which no man can shut,
  	and it is but a question of time when the world will know
27	her better and love her more. — E. E. N., Washington,
  	D. C. 


  	HEALED OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE 

30	    August 18, 1902, I was taken down with what three
  	doctors pronounced Bright's disease, and they stated
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   696


1	that I would not live a year, or if I did succeed in liv-
  	ing longer, I would be mentally unbalanced. On De-
 3	cember 6, 1902, my wife presented me with Science and
  	Health as a birthday gift, and it was indeed the
  	best present I ever received. Since that time I
 6	have been reading it and attending Second Church
  	here. I have not used any medicine since, nor has any
  	one in our home. I am in the finest of health and have
 9	lost all my bad habits. This truth has brought a great
  	spiritual uplifting to all of us, and words cannot express
  	my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy and to all who have helped
12	me to the same. — T. V., Chicago, Ill. 


  	FIBROID TUMOR DESTROYED 

  	    When quite young I was impressed that the Bible
15	was not properly interpreted by the preachers, for I
  	could not conceive of a God of wrath who was unjust
  	enough to allow His little ones to suffer pain, misery, and
18	death. I had hope, however, that some day the truth
  	would be revealed to an awakening world, but little did
  	I dream that even then there was one of God's noble
21	women who reflected sufficient purity and holiness to
  	entertain the "angel of his presence," and commune with
  	the true God. 
24	    I was believed to be predisposed to scrofula, so that
  	I was not a strong or attractive child, and my girlhood
  	and womanhood were scarcely ever free from dread of
27	the laws of matter and lack of strength. The climax
  	was reached when a physician informed me, after weeks
  	of treatment, that I had a fibroid tumor, which required
30	an operation. The conditions were most trying and I
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   697


 1	was heartsick and discouraged when, in January, 1893,
  	I heard of Christian Science through a letter from a dear
 3	sister who had been greatly benefited thereby, and I re-
  	solved to go at once to a practitioner, for I believed it
  	to be the long-lost truth that would make me free. It
 6	meant a great effort and sacrifice for me to go to Chicago
  	at that time, but divine Love opened the way and I reached
  	there in March. I had been in my sister's home but
 9	a few days, reading Science and Health almost con-
  	stantly, when I asked her if I had not better have
  	treatment for the tumor, which had given me so much
12	trouble. She said to me, "You feel well, do you not?" 
  	I assured her that I never had felt so well as I had since
  	reaching there. "Well," she said with decision, "your
15	tumor is gone, for God never made it," and her statements
  	were true, for it has never been heard of from that day. 
  	Since then I have been healed of chronic sore throat,
18	hay fever, and other troubles, and I know that Christian
  	Science is the truth. — B. W. S., Coldwater, Mich. 


  	LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS 

21	    I have received so much benefit from the testimonies
  	in the Sentinel and Journal that I send mine, hoping
  	it may cheer some struggling heart. I was reared by
24	kind and loving Christian parents and was a member
  	of an orthodox church for over twenty years, but I was
  	never satisfied. I was filled with fear and bound down
27	by the false gods of this world, — sin, disease, and pov-
  	erty; consequently every way I turned, and in everything
  	I attempted to do, I was met with disappointment and
30	failure; but God was leading me into a different life. 
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   698


 1	My interest was first awakened to Christian Science
  	about thirteen years ago, and I have been a willing dis-
 3	ciple ever since. Through the reading of Science and
  	Health I was healed of chronic catarrh and laryngitis,
  	and it also enabled me to lay off my glasses. Christian
 6	Science has not only helped me mentally, morally, and
  	physically, but the greatest blessing of all is the spirit-
  	ual uplifting which enabled me to know that God is both
 9	able and willing to care for His children, if we are but
  	willing to do our part and bear the cross which, though
  	it seems heavy at times, always brings a sure reward. 
12	Christian Science has not only helped me, but it has
  	enabled me to help others. 
  	    The Bible is a new book to me. I now see what
15	Jesus meant when he said, "Come unto me, all ye that
  	labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 
  	    My heart goes out in gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for the
18	work she has done and is still doing for the world, and
  	to God I am most grateful that He has guided me into the
  	truth, that I may have life, and have it more abundantly.
21	 — Mrs. M. M., Chicago, Ill. 


  	A GRATEFUL TESTIMONY 

  	    "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto
24	my path." 
  	    This has been proven to me in every way. When
  	Christian Science came to me, I was a wreck, physically,
27	mentally, and financially; but since the reading of Sci-
  	ence and Health turned my thought toward the light, I
  	have found that, as far as I am willing to receive the word
30	and live it, all comforts are supplied me. I am especially
 

      Science and Health – Fruitage                                                   699


 1	grateful for the spiritual help. I know that things which
  	I did and thought last year I would not do or think this
 3	year, and am satisfied. Through the careful and prayer-
  	ful study of Science and Health I have been lifted from
  	sickness to health, from sorrow to peace, from lack to
 6	plenty, and, the most beautiful of all, from darkness to
  	light. — Mrs. H. S. C., Seattle, Wash. 


  	HEALED OF CONSUMPTION AND ASTHMA 

 9	    It is a pleasure to acknowledge the great benefits which
  	have come to me through Christian Science. It is nearly
  	ten years since I began the investigation of the subject by
12	borrowing a copy of Science and Health. I had become
  	a hopeless sufferer from asthma, — the disease being so
  	aggravated at times as to make breathing almost impos-
15	sible. I was also a victim of that dread disease, consump-
  	tion. It was hereditary, nearly all my family on both
  	sides having passed away with it. I took up Christian
18	Science very much as a drowning man catches at a straw. 
  	However, I was much interested as soon as I began to
  	understand it, and having read the book nearly all my
21	waking hours for a few weeks, I became so much better
  	and so convinced of its truth, that myself and wife de-
  	stroyed all the medicines in the home, and have never
24	since used any remedy except Christian Science. I con-
  	tinued to study and to put into practice the teaching as
  	best I knew, and was restored to health in a few months. 
27	    Prior to my investigation of Christian Science I had
  	been from boyhood an outspoken infidel, had read that
  	class of literature extensively, and had no desire for
30	anything of a religious nature, — the orthodox teaching
 
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 1	never having appealed to me as a rational exposition of
  	an all-wise God. I now have no more doubt of the truth
 3	of the teaching of the great Way-shower, Jesus of Naza-
  	reth, than I doubt the correctness of the basic law of
  	mathematics or music. I have no doubt whatever that
 6	Christian Science saved me from the grave, and thus
  	proved a most practicable and efficient help in time of
  	greatest need. However great my physical suffering has
 9	been, I can but feel glad that through it the door of con-
  	sciousness was opened to let in the light of Truth. Thus
  	I have progressed a little way in the knowledge of God,
12	good, as revealed in Christian Science. — C. B., Webb
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