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Chapter 8 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please refer to SUBTITLE Text content below. 

 1	    I knew a person who when quite a child adopted the
  	Graham system to cure dyspepsia. For many years, he
 3	ate only bread and vegetables, and drank noth-	                  Starvation
  	ing but water. His dyspepsia increasing, he	                          and
  	decided that his diet should be more rigid, and	                  dyspepsia 
 6	thereafter he partook of but one meal in twenty-four
  	hours, this meal consisting of only a thin slice of bread
  	without water. His physician also recommended that
 9	he should not wet his parched throat until three hours
  	after eating. He passed many weary years in hunger
  	and weakness, almost in starvation, and finally made up
12	his mind to die, having exhausted the skill of the doctors,
  	who kindly informed him that death was indeed his only
  	alternative. At this point Christian Science saved him,
15	and he is now in perfect health without a vestige of the
  	old complaint. 
  	    He learned that suffering and disease were the self-
18	imposed beliefs of mortals, and not the facts of being;
  	that God never decreed disease, — never ordained a law
  	that fasting should be a means of health. Hence semi-
21	starvation is not acceptable to wisdom, and it is equally
  	far from Science, in which being is sustained by God, Mind. 
  	These truths, opening his eyes, relieved his stomach, and
24	he ate without suffering, "giving God thanks;" but he
  	never enjoyed his food as he had imagined he would
  	when, still th...e slave of matter, he thought of the flesh-
27	pots of Egypt, feeling childhood's hunger and undisci-
  	plined by self-denial and divine Science. 
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