0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 10 – Miscellaneous Writings – Chpt 12 – Testimonials and How to Understand Science and Health

 1	LETTERS FROM THOSE HEALED BY READING "SCIENCE
  	AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES" 

 3	The Editor of The Christian Science Journal (Falmouth and St.
  	Paul Streets, Boston, Mass.) holds the original of most of the letters
  	that authenticate these. 

 6	    It is something more than a year and a half since I was
  	cured of a complication of diseases through reading
  	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." 
 9	    Becoming at an early age disgusted with drugs, I learned
  	hygiene, and practised it faithfully for over twenty years;
  	then I began to lose all faith in its efficacy, became
12	greatly discouraged, and, as I had never been cured of
  	a single ailment, I rapidly grew worse in health. Hear-
  	ing of this, a dear sister brought me Science and Health. 
15	Her admonition was, "Now read it, E —  I have heard
  	that just the reading of that book has been known to heal
  	the sick." 
18	    I had read to, and through, the chapter on Healing and
  	Teaching,¹ and was so deeply interested that  I began
  	reading that blessed chapter over again, — when I found
21	I was cured of my dyspepsia, that I could use my strength
  	in lifting without feeling the old distressing pain in my
  	side, and also that the pain in the kidneys only came on

24	                  ¹Page 292 of the revised edition of 1890.
 
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 1	at night, waking me out of sleep. Then I began my first
  	conscious treatments:  of course I followed no formula,
 3	and I needed none. A cry for help, knowing it would
  	be answered; precious texts from the Bible, which had
  	already become like a new book to me; sweet assurance
 6	of faith by the witnessing Spirit; strong logical conclu-
  	sions, learned from Science and Health:  what a wealth
  	of material! Before finishing the book, all tendency to
 9	my old aches and pains had left me, and I have been a
  	strong, healthy woman ever since. 
  	    My first demonstration with another than myself was
12	also before I had finished my first reading. My husband
  	was cured of the belief of bilious fever by not over ten
  	minutes' treatment; the fever and pain in head and limbs
15	disappearing in that instantaneous way as soon as I
  	could summon sufficient courage to offer my services in
  	this, to us, new but glorious work. He slept soundly
18	that night (the treatment was given about 10 A. M.), and
  	ate and worked as usual the next day, with no symptoms
  	of a relapse then or afterward. That was in March, 1888;
21	in the following August I met in one of our Rocky Moun-
  	tain berry patches a lady who complained so bitterly that
  	I felt compelled to offer her treatment. Her words, when
24	I visited her at her home during Christmas week, will
  	give some idea of the result: —  
  	    "Yes, I am doing three women's work, — attending to
27	my own and my son's housework, and caring for his wife
  	and new-born babe; but I am equal to it, when I think
  	of all the Lord has done for me!  Why, Mrs. S., I was
30	cured with that first treatment you gave me, I know;
  	because I went out to gather berries that day and was
  	caught in a drenching shower, — and for ten years before
  
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  1	I could not bear the least exposure without suffering
  	from those dreadful headaches I told you about, and
 3	from dysentery, — but that day I had neither.  I had
  	once been laid out for dead, — lying there perfectly con-
  	scious, hearing my friends grieving over me, — but I did
 6	not want to come to, I suffered so.  No, I never have any
  	of those ailments.  I am a well, hearty woman, — and
  	that is not all.  I had been seeking religion for more than
 9	twenty years, but I never knew how Christians felt till I
  	told you I was cured that day on the camp-ground." 
  	    On the first of this year I was so blessed as to receive
12	a course of lessons from one of our teacher's students. 
  	Now I am only trusting that the time will come when I
  	may be enabled to teach others the way of Truth, as well
15	as to add to the many demonstrations God has given
  	me. — E. D. S. 

  	    A student of Christian Science was employed in the
18	Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown, to teach the
  	prisoners to make shoes. He carried his copy of "Science
  	and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and the Journal
21	with him, and as he had the opportunity would tell the
  	men what this wonderful truth could do for them, set-
  	ting them free in a larger and higher sense than they had
24	dreamed of. 
  	    We make extracts from a number of letters that one
  	of the prisoners has written to those who are interesting
27	themselves in this work. 

  	    "Editor of The Christian Science Journal: — At the
  	prison, once a week, there are Christian papers given
30	to the inmates.  But none of those papers point out so
 
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  1	clearly the fallibility of the mortal or carnal mind, and
  	the infallibility of the divine Mind, as does the teaching
 3	of Christian Science. 
  	    "I was strangely blind and stupid. I loved sin, and
  	it seemed as though I never would be able to forsake it. 
 6	I did everything that would be expected of one entirely
  	ignorant of God. 
  	    "I also had a complication of diseases.  I could not
 9	begin to describe the medicines I have taken. 
  	    "I no longer look for material treatment, but hum-
  	bly seek for the divine assistance of Jesus, through the
12	way Christian Science has taught me. I am, indeed,
  	an altered man. I now have no more doubt of the
  	way of salvation than I have of the way to the prison
15	workshop. 
  	    "I am very grateful to the students of Christian Science,
  	for the interest they have taken in me and my fellow-
18	prisoners.  Their letters and books have been of great
  	profit, and in accordance with their wish I have done what
  	I could for the others. 
21	    "I gave the Journal to every man who would accept
  	it, and related my experience to those who would listen. 
  	I told them they need go no farther than myself to see
24	what the demonstration was; for not only have my eyes
  	been healed, but many other ailments have disappeared. 
  	    "Some of the fellows told me I was becoming reli-
27	giously insane, but acting upon your advice, I did not stop
  	to argue with those opposed; and I am glad to be able to
  	tell you that those who expressed interest were more than
30	those who opposed. 
  	    "The chaplain told me I could keep Science and
  	Health until I got through with it. I never should
 
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 1	get through with that book, but, as others were waiting
  	for it, I did not like to keep it too long. God bless the
 3	author! 
  	    "I need have no fear after leaving here; I feel that
  	I can make an honest living.  I can honestly add, that
 6	my bad reputation is largely due to my lack of educa-
  	tion.  What little I do know, I learned here and in the
  	House of Correction.  I tell you this, for I feel that I
 9	must be honest with the kind friends who have done so
  	much for me. 
  	    "Providing I should not be paroled, I shall remain
12	here until the 24th of next December. God bless you
  	all. — J. C." 

  	    I am glad to tell how I was healed. Beliefs of con-
15	sumption, dyspepsia, neuralgia, piles, tobacco, and bad
  	language held me in bondage for many years. Doctors
  	that were consulted did nothing to relieve me, and I
18	constantly grew worse. Nearly two years ago a lady
  	told me that if I would read a book called "Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures" I would be healed. 
21	I told her I would "go into it for all it is worth," and
  	I have found that it is worth all. I got the book, and
  	read day and night. I saw that it must be true, and be-
24	lieved that what I could not then understand would be
  	made clear later. 
  	    After some days' reading I was affected with drowsi-
27	ness, followed by vomiting. This lasted several hours;
  	when I fell into a sleep, and awoke healed. The good I
  	have received, and that I have been able to do in healing
30	others, has all come from Science and Health. I received
  	some instructions from teachers; but they did me more
  
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  1	harm than good:  I asked for bread, but they gave me a
  	stone. I held to what I could understand of Science and
 3	Health; and the truth does not forsake me, but enables
  	me to heal others. 
  	    Last February, I was called to treat a child that the
 6	M. D.'s said was dying from lung fever; after the third
  	treatment the child got up and ran about, completely
  	healed. Another child was brought to me, with rupture;
 9	after the second treatment the truss was thrown away. 
  	An aged lady was healed of heart disease and chills, in
  	one treatment. These cases brought me many more, that
12	were also healed. 
  	    The husband of a lady in the State Lunatic Asylum
  	asked me to treat her; she had been for two years and
15	a half in the asylum, and though taken home in this time
  	once or twice, she had had to be taken back. After two
  	weeks of absent treatment, the husband visited her, and
18	the doctor reported great improvement during the pre-
  	ceding two weeks. At the end of another two weeks I
  	went with the husband to the asylum, and the doctor told
21	us that she was well enough to go home. The husband
  	asked the doctor how it was that she had improved so
  	rapidly, and he said that he could not account for it. We
24	said nothing about the Christian Science treatment, and
  	took the lady home. This was about a year ago, and she
  	has remained perfectly well. 
27	    Many cases as striking as this can be referred to in
  	this town, as evidence that Truth is the healer of sickness
  	as well as of sin. — J. B. H. 

30	    No. 1.  A lady friend, who was found to have a severe
  	attack of dysentery, was assured that such attacks could
 
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 1	be cured without medicine, and advised to take no more. 
  	She was more than astonished at the result; for in less
 3	than an hour all pain and other symptoms of the trouble
  	ceased, and she felt perfectly well the next day. 
  	    No. 2.  While she was visiting relatives in the country,
 6	an infant of theirs was attacked severely with croup,
  	and appeared to be on the verge of suffocation, giving
  	its parents much alarm. The infant was taken in
 9	the arms of the lady, in thirty minutes was completely
  	relieved, went to sleep, and awoke in good health the
  	next morning. 
12	    No. 3.  The mother of this child was subsequently
  	attacked with a scrofulous swelling on the neck, just
  	under the ear, which was very painful and disfiguring;
15	the side of the face, also, being badly swollen. It was
  	feared that this would develop into and undergo the
  	usual phenomenon of abscess, as other similar swellings
18	had done previously. She had great faith in the meta-
  	physical treatment, because of the experience which she
  	had had with her baby, and wrote a letter describing her
21	case. This was immediately answered, and absent
  	treatment was begun. In twenty-four hours after receipt
  	of the letter, to the astonishment of herself and family,
24	the tumor had entirely disappeared:  there was not a
  	trace of it left; although the day before it was fully as
  	large as a hen's egg; red, and tender to the touch. 
27	    These instances are only a few of the many cures which
  	have been performed in this way, and they are mentioned
  	simply to show what good work may be done by any
30	earnest, conscientious person who has gained by reading
  	my works the proper understanding of the Principle of
  	Christian Science. 
 
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  1	    What a wonderful field for enlightenment and profit
  	lies open to those who seek after Truth. Alas, that the
 3	feet of so few enter it! 

  	    Rev. M. B. G. Eddy: — Will you kindly spare me a few
  	moments for the perusal of these lines from a stranger, — 
 6	one who feels under a debt of gratitude to you, — for,
  	through the divine Science brought to light by you, I have
  	been "made whole." I have been cured of a malignant
 9	cancer since I began to study Christian Science, and have
  	demonstrated the truth of it in a number of cases. I have
  	only studied your good books, having been unable to take
12	the lectures for want of means. I dare not think of these,
  	for there is no prospect that I shall be in a position to
  	take the course at all. I do not allow myself to com-
15	plain, but cheerfully take up my books and study, and
  	feel thankful for this light. 
  	                             M. E. W., Canon City, Col. 

18	    Dear Madam: — May I thank you for your book,
  	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and
  	say how much I owe to it — almost my very life — at a
21	most critical time. . . . 
  	    If it were not for the heat of your American summers
  	(I had nine attacks of dysentery in the last one), and the
24	expense, I should dearly like to learn from you person-
  	ally; but I must forego this, — at any rate, for the pres-
  	ent. If you would write me what the cost would be for a
27	course on divine metaphysics, I would try to manage it
  	later on. 
 
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  1	    Meanwhile, I should be grateful if you would refer me
  	to any one in this country who is interested similarly,
 3	for I get more kicks than halfpence in discussing it. 
  	    Your obliged friend,              (REV.) I. G. W. BISHOP, 

  	                   Bovington Vicarage, Hemel Hempstead,
 6	                                         Herts, England 

    	                   Extract from a letter to Rev. M. B. G. Eddy 

  	    A gentleman here had hired all the most skilled doctors
 9	in the United States — nothing helped him. He was a
  	ghost to look upon. I told him just to read my copies
  	of your books. I talked to him, told him what he could
12	do for himself if he but tried. He laughed at me. I was
  	willing he should laugh, for it was very unusual for him
  	to do this. He had your books two months, and last Sun-
15	day he returned them. I wish you could see him: he is
  	well. He is happy, and told me he was going to write to
  	you for the books for himself this week. — E. E. B. 

18	    Dear Madam: — I have been a sickly person all my
  	life, until a few months ago, and was confined to my
  	bed every little while. It was during one of many attacks
21	that your book, "Science and Health with Key to the
  	Scriptures," was handed me. I read it only a very short
  	time, when I arose, well, went out into the kitchen, pre-
24	pared a large dinner, and ate heartily of it. 
  	    I have been up and well ever since, — a marvel to my
  	friends and family, and sometimes they can hardly be-
27	lieve it is I; and feeling so grateful, I must tell you of
 
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  1	it. I wish everybody in the world would read your book,
  	for all would be benefited by it. 
 3	        Gratefully yours,          ANNA M. SMITH 

  	    Dear Madam: — About seven years ago I was com-
  	pelled to go to an oculist and have an operation performed
 6	upon my eyes. He fitted me with glasses, which I wore
  	for a considerable time, and then removed; but the pain
  	and difficulty returned, and I was obliged to go again to
 9	the oculist, who advised me never to take my glasses off
  	again. 
  	    I continued wearing them for fully five years longer,
12	until some time in last January, when, upon reading your
  	book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
  	I again took them off. Since that time, though I have been
15	in the courts reporting, and reading fine notes frequently,
  	I have experienced no difficulty with my eyes. 
  	        Very respectfully,
18	                     WILLIAM A. SMITH, Wilmington, Del. 

  	    Dear Mrs. Eddy: — We have been studying "Science
  	and Health with Key to the Scriptures" for a year, and
21	I cannot tell you how much it has done for us; giving us
  	health instead of sickness, and giving us such an under-
  	standing of God as we never had before. Christian
24	Science was our only help two weeks ago, when our baby
  	was born. My husband and myself were alone. I dressed
  	myself the next day; commenced doing my work the
27	third day, and am well and strong. It must be pleasing
  	to you to know how much good your work is doing. 
  	                   KITTIE BECK, Elmwood, Cass Co., Neb. 
  
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 1	    I was a helpless sufferer in August, 1883, and had been
  	so for many years. The physicians said I had cancer
 3	of the uterus. I heard of your book, "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures," bought a copy, began read-
  	ing it, and a great light seemed to break through the
 6	darkness. I cried aloud in joy, "This is what I have
  	been hungering for, these many years!" I studied it
  	closely, and healed myself and several of my friends be-
 9	fore I had taken instruction of any teacher. 
  	                   MRS. S. A. McMAHON, Wyandotte, Kans. 

  	    I was healed thoroughly of the belief of chronic hepati-
12	tis and kidney disease, by reading "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures." I have never, to this day,
  	had the slightest return of it. 
15	                    J. P. FILBERT, Council Bluffs, Iowa 

  	    You, dear Mrs. Eddy, have saved my life, through
  	Science and Health; and I feel that the patients healed
18	through me should give the first thanks to God and to
  	you. — MRS. D. S. HARRIMAN, Kansas City, Mo. 

  	    How grand your book, "Science and Health with Key
21	to the Scriptures," is! It is a translation of Truth. No
  	amount of money could buy the book of me, if I could not
  	get another. No matter what suffering comes, physical
24	or mental, I have only to take Science and Health, and
  	almost invariably the first sentence brings relief. It
 
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 1	seems to steady the thought. I do not think any student
  	old enough to neglect reading it. When we think we are
 3	advanced far enough to let that book alone, then are
  	we in danger. 
  	        MRS. ELLEN P. CLARK, Dorchester, Mass. 

 6	    Many thanks for the good received from your books. 
  	When I commenced reading them, I was carrying about
  	a very sick body. Your books have healed me. I am
 9	now in perfect health. People look at me with surprise,
  	and say they do not understand it; but when they see
  	the sick ones made well, they are not always willing to
12	believe it. 
  	        MRS. JOSEPH TILLSON, South Hanson, Mass. 

  	    Rev. M. B. G. Eddy: — I add one more testimony of
15	a cure from reading your book, "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures." Five years ago I lay pros-
  	trate with piles and inflammation of the bowels. All
18	the coating came off, apparently. A stricture was formed,
  	beyond medical reach. I then lived in Chicago; one
  	of the best physicians, who made a specialty of treating
21	piles, attended me. The pain was relieved, but my
  	bowels were inactive, and remained so until New Year's
  	eve. 
24	    I determined to trust all to God, or die before I would
  	take any more medicine, as I never had an action unless
  	I took a free dose of some laxative. If I forgot to take
27	the medicine one night, or allowed myself to be without
  	it, I had a terrible sick headache for two or three days,
  	and terrible backache. I never had backache at any
 
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 1	other time, and the piles would be so much inflamed, in
  	two days' time, that I could hardly tell where I suffered
 3	the worst. 
  	    Since I have learned to trust all to God, I have not
  	had the least trouble with the piles, nor one twinge of
 6	the backache. I have an easy action of the bowels each
  	morning. It was five days after I resolved to leave medi-
  	cine alone, before a natural movement took place; and
 9	ever since I have been perfectly regular. It was a great
  	effort for me to take that step, for I knew I was running
  	the risk of throwing myself back into all misery, and
12	perhaps into a worse state than before. By reading
  	Science and Health, I learned that God was able to save
  	the body as well as the soul, and I believed His promises
15	were for me. 
  	              MATTIE E. MAYFIELD, Des Moines, Iowa 

  	    For the Cause of Truth, I submit the following testi-
18	monial for publication; may it bring one more, at least,
  	into the fold of divine Science! The truth, as it is stated
  	in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
21	has done much towards making our home the abiding-
  	place of peace and harmony. I now write of the wonder-
  	ful demonstration of Truth over the birth of my baby
24	boy, two weeks ago. Sunday, September 23, we went
  	for a long drive of three hours; at night I retired at the
  	usual hour; toward morning I was given a little warn-
27	ing; when I awoke at seven o'clock, the birth took place. 
  	Not more than ten minutes after, I ate a hearty break-
  	fast, and then had a refreshing sleep; at ten o'clock
30	walked across the room while my bed was dressed; at
  
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1	twelve took a substantial dinner; most of the afternoon
  	sat up in bed, without any support but Truth; at six
 3	in the evening dressed myself and walked to the dining-
  	room, and remained up for two hours. Next morning
  	I arose at the usual hour, and have kept it up ever since,
 6	 — was not confined to my bed one whole day. The
  	second day was out walking in the yard, and the third
  	day went for a drive in the morning and received callers
 9	in the afternoon. If it had not been for the presence of
  	my young hopeful, it would have been hard to believe
  	that there had so recently been a belief of a birth in the
12	house; but then, I was sustained by Love, and had no
  	belief of suffering to take my strength away. Before
  	baby was two weeks old, I cooked, swept, ran the sew-
15	ing machine, etc., assisting with the housework gen-
  	erally. How grateful I am for the obstetrics of this
  	grand Science! Mothers need no longer listen to the
18	whispering lies of the old serpent, for the law of mortal
  	mind is broken by Truth. 
  	                MRS. DORA HOSSICK, Carrolton, Mo. 

21	    My wife and I have been healed by reading your book,
  	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." We
  	both feel very grateful to you. 
24	    Five months ago my wife gave birth to a child, with-
  	out pain or inconvenience, has done all the housework
  	since, and has been every minute perfectly well. Neither
27	she nor the child have been ill, — as was constantly the
  	case with former children, — so we have thought it right
  	to name the child Glover Eddy. 
30	    We have been reading Science and Health nearly
 
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 1	two years, and have sold several copies to others. We
  	are reading the Journal also this year. 
 3	Yours respectfully,   JOHN B. HOUSEL, Lincoln, Neb. 

  	    Dear Mother: — The most blessed of women! Oh,
  	how I long to sit within range of your voice and hear the
 6	truth that comes to you from on high! for none could
  	speak such wondrous thoughts as have come from your
  	pen, except it be the Spirit that speaketh in you. 
 9	    Two years ago last October, while laboring under a
  	great strain of care and anxiety in regard to financial
  	affairs, I heard of Christian Science. I borrowed "Sci-
12	ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and began
  	to read. I bless God that I was driven to it by such an
  	extremity. After reading some one hundred and fifty
15	pages, I was convinced that it was the truth for which
  	I had searched during twenty years. While I was read-
  	ing the chapter on Imposition and Demonstration,¹ I
18	was healed of endometritis and prolapsus uteri of over
  	twenty years' standing, pronounced incurable by emi-
  	nent physicians. Professor Ludlam, the dean of Hahne-
21	mann Medical College, of Chicago, Ill., was one of my
  	doctors. 
  	    Before I was healed, to walk seven or eight blocks
24	would so fatigue me that it would take me a week to
  	recover. I now started out and walked, and was on my
  	feet all day and for several succeeding days, but felt no
27	weariness from my labors. 
  	    I felt, after being healed, I must have a Science and
  	Health of my own. I had no money to buy it, so earned
30	¹Page 234, revised edition of 1890.
 
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 1	it by getting subscribers for the Journal. It has gone
  	with me everywhere I have been. I have been well ever
 3	since. 
  	    I had suffered from bodily ailments, but they were
  	nothing compared to my mental trials. Grief, hatred,
 6	jealousy, and revenge had well-nigh bereft me of reason. 
  	I had lost a home of plenty, been reduced to almost abject
  	poverty, and had become a cheerless woman, — could
 9	not smile without feeling I had sinned. 
  	    All my griefs and sorrows are now turned to joy, and
  	my hatred is changed to love. "Glory to God in the
12	highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." I
  	read Science and Health, and all your other books, to-
  	gether with the New Testament, every minute I can
15	get. — E. B. C., Omaha, Neb. 

  	    I must add one more to your great pile of letters, to
  	tell you what your book, "Science and Health with Key
18	to the Scriptures," has done for me and my family. More
  	than a year ago, my husband was suffering from an injury
  	received about a year previous, and he went to Mrs. B. for
21	treatment. His shoulder had been fractured, his collar-
  	bone broken, and he had sustained internal injuries. Sev-
  	eral M. D.'s had attended him, but had given him very
24	little relief. Mrs. B. treated him a short time, and he
  	received much benefit. He bought Science and Health. 
  	From reading it, I was cured of a belief of chronic liver
27	complaint. I suffered so much from headaches and con-
  	stipation, and other beliefs, that I seldom ever saw a well
  	day; but, thanks to you and divine Principle, I now
30	seldom ever have a belief of feeling badly. 
  
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 1	    November 4th, last, I was confined. I was alone,
  	because I knew no one whose thought was in harmony
 3	with Science. I thought I could get along without help,
  	and I did. My little girl was sleeping in the same room
  	with me, and after the birth she called a woman who
 6	was asleep upstairs, to take care of the baby. This
  	woman was much frightened; but, on seeing how com-
  	posed I was, she got over her fright. I was sitting up
 9	in bed, holding the child, and feeling as well as I ever
  	did in my life. I never had seen a Scientist nor been
  	treated, but got all my ideas from Science and Health. 
12	My baby was born on Sunday morning, and I got up
  	Monday at noon, and stayed up. I never got along so
  	well with a baby as I did with this one. 
15	    I am very thankful for the knowledge of Science I
  	have gained through your book. I want so much to be
  	a Scientist; but we are very poor. My husband is a
18	brakeman on the railroad; and I have very little educa-
  	tion. There is comfort in the thought that, if I can't be
  	a Scientist, my children may be. 
21	Yours with much love,   C. A. W., Lexington, Mo. 

  	    In the February Journal it appears there is some one
  	who says that "Science and Health with Key to the
24	Scriptures" is hard to understand, and who thinks she
  	can explain it. Perhaps my experience with Science
  	and Health may help some one who might otherwise
27	take up this thought, and so be led away from the truth. 
  	After reading and studying it for some time, and talking
  	to the Scientists I met in my travels, the thought came
30	to me, "Why not try these truths on yourself?" I did
 
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 1	so, and to my surprise and great joy I found immediate
  	relief. Dyspepsia (the trouble of most commercial travel-
 3	lers), catarrh, and many lesser beliefs, left me, so that in
  	a short time I was a well man, and by no other means
  	than trusting to the Saviour's promises as explained in
 6	Science and Health. This took place while I was travel-
  	ling about the country. 
  	    On my return home, I gave my wife treatments. In
 9	many instances the blessing came before the treatment
  	was finished, and often we proved that only a thought
  	of the power of Truth was sufficient to give relief. 
12	    One Sunday morning, soon after my return, a friend
  	called and asked if I could give him anything to relieve
  	his wife, who, he said, had been suffering for some days
15	with rheumatism in her shoulder, so severely that she
  	could neither dress alone nor comb her hair. I told him
  	that the only medicine we had in the house was Chris-
18	tian Science. He laughed at the idea; but before he
  	left, he asked if I would give his wife a treatment. I
  	told him I was very young in Science, but if she wished
21	it, I would. He went home, but returned immediately,
  	saying she wished me to come. Then I asked help from
  	the fountain of Truth, and started for my first treatment
24	to be given away from home. When I left their room
  	fifteen minutes later, she was shaking her hand high
  	above her head, and exclaiming, "I am all right; I am
27	well!" That was in November, 1887, and she has had
  	no return of the belief since. 
  	    A friend told me that his son, twelve years old, had
30	catarrh so badly that his breath was very offensive, his
  	throat troubled him all the time, and that he had been
  	deaf since he had the measles. In less than three weeks
  
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 1	both beliefs vanished. This was a case of absent treat-
  	ment. I could give you other cases, but I think I have
 3	said enough to prove that Science and Health is not
  	hard to understand, for my work has all been done with-
  	out my ever attending class. 
 6	                                H. H. B., New York City 

  	    A lady, with no other instructor than "Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures," has demonstrated
 9	beyond many who have taken numerous lessons. Per-
  	suaded, through her reading, of the allness of God, — 
  	and the perfectness of idea, — she would know nothing
12	else. A daughter, so badly affected by poison oak (ivy)
  	that for weeks death was feared from blood-poisoning,
  	had recovered with a terrible dread of that plant. As
15	the next season's picnic time drew near, she was regret-
  	ting that she dared not go again. The mother, with her
  	new-born faith in the Science of being, said, "Certainly
18	you can go, for nothing can harm you." Assured by
  	these words, the daughter went, and in her rambles fell
  	into a mass of the dreaded plant; but trusting to the
21	word of Truth, she thought nothing of it till one who
  	knew of her previous trouble said, in her mother's pres-
  	ence, "See, her face is showing red already." But the
24	mother was prompt in denial and assurance. Next morn-
  	ing, old symptoms were out in force, but they yielded
  	at once and finally to the positive and uncompromising
27	hold on Truth. Another daughter, that was thought
  	too delicate to raise, from bronchial and nervous troubles,
  	always dosed with medicine and wrapped in flannels,
30	now runs free and well without either of these, winter
 
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 1	and summer. The mother was recently attacked by
  	mesmerism from the church that believed she was in-
 3	fluencing her daughter to leave. She overcame by the
  	same unwavering trust in God, seeing Truth clearer than
  	ever before. Her demonstrations come through no form
 6	of treatment, but by letting the Spirit bear witness, — 
  	by the positive recognition and realization of no reality
  	but ever-present good. 
 9	    The other night her husband was attacked with an
  	old belief, similar to one that some time before had ended
  	in a congestive chill which the doctor thought very seri-
12	ous, and from which he had been a long time in recover-
  	ing. The wife simply recognized no reality in the belief,
  	and, seeing only perfect being, felt no fear. She did
15	nothing, — no "treating" in the usual sense. There is
  	nothing to do but to understand that all is harmony,
  	always. He felt the presence that destroys the sense of
18	evil, and next morning — there was nothing left to re-
  	cover from. 
  	    A lady, while doing some starching, thoughtlessly put
21	her hand into the scalding starch to wring out a collar. 
  	Recalled to mortal sense by the stinging pain, she imme-
  	diately realized the all-power of God. At once the pain
24	began to subside; and as she brushed off the scalding
  	starch, she could see the blister-swelling go down till
  	there was but a little redness to show for the accident;
27	absorbed in her thankfulness, she mechanically wrung
  	out the collar with the same hand, and with no sense of
  	pain, thus verifying the demonstration. This woman
30	(not reading English) only knows Science as she has re-
  	ceived it from her practitioner during the treatments
  	received within the last month. So much has come to
 
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 1	her from Spirit through her loyalty to Christ, in so far
  	as she could understand. 
 3	    A case of ulcerated tooth and neuralgic belief would
  	only partially yield after repeated treatments, till it was
  	discovered that the patient was antagonizing Truth by
 6	holding the thought that her old remedy, laudanum,
  	would give relief; treated from this standpoint, relief was
  	immediate and final. 
 9	    One morning after Rev. —— had been preaching to
  	thousands for several days, he told them that he had
  	never felt such a sense of depression nor had so little
12	showing of results. Some Scientists hearing this, at once
  	saw his trouble. He had been fearlessly exposing and
  	denouncing evil; and it had turned on him, till the mes-
15	merism was likely to overcome him entirely, for he did
  	not understand the seeming power. The effect of the
  	silent word to uplift and sustain, was very manifest that
18	evening in his preaching, and was a beautiful demon-
  	stration of Science. He probably only felt Spirit-inspira-
  	tion as he had not before, without a thought as to what
21	had broken the evil spell; but we never know the what,
  	or when, or where, of the harvest we can sow — "God
  	giveth the increase." — E. H. B., Sacramento 

24	    I had two German patients who were anxious to have
  	you publish "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
  	tures" in their language. I advised them to buy it and
27	try to read it. They commenced reading, and now can
 
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 1	read all of Science and Health, but do not read well any
  	other book or paper, and they do not need to. With
 3	great love. — M. H. P. 

  	    I sold three copies of "Science and Health with Key
  	to the Scriptures" to friends, not long ago. One of them,
 6	fifty years of age, said to me, "I never had one day's
  	sickness in my life; but after reading Science and Health
  	I found that I was bruised and mangled, from the crown
 9	of my head to the soles of my feet. I have been reach-
  	ing after something that, before reading Science and
  	Health, seemed to me unattainable;" and with tears
12	in her eyes, she rejoiced in the God of her salvation. 
  	Did not Jesus say, "If these should hold their peace, the
  	stones would immediately cry out"? 
15	                                  P. L., Lexington, Ky. 

  	    For eight years I suffered terribly with my eyes; I
  	could not read fifteen minutes without the most agoniz-
18	ing sick headache. Oculists called it a case of double
  	vision, and said that the only chance for a cure lay in
  	cutting the muscles of the eyes. This was done, but the
21	pain was worse than before. One of the most famous
  	oculists of New York said I would simply have to endure
  	it for life, as it was a case of severe astigmatism. 
24	    I suffered so that my health gave way. A friend spoke
  	to me of Christian Science, but I scoffed at the idea. 
  	Later on, in desperation, I asked her to lend me "Science
27	and Health with Key to the Scriptures," thinking I might
  	be able to read five minutes a day in it. I opened the
 
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 1	book at the chapter on Physiology, and began. Time
  	passed unnoticed:  every page seemed illuminated. I
 3	said, "This is everything or nothing; if everything, then
  	you need no glasses." I took off the heavy ground glasses,
  	and went on. What a terrible headache I had the next
 6	morning! but I fought it with the truth laid down in the
  	book. I said again, "This is everything or nothing,"
  	and the truth triumphed. The headache ceased, but I
 9	felt miserably. I recalled what was said about chemicali-
  	zation, and persevered. 
  	    In four days my eyes were well; I read as many hours
12	a day as I pleased; my strength returned. I conquered
  	one belief after another, until now, strong and well, I
  	meet every belief with confidence. "I will fear no evil:
15	for Thou art with me." For two years I have realized
  	the peace and confidence which the knowledge that God
  	is all-powerful and always present alone can give. Feel-
18	ing a great desire to spread Christian Science, that it
  	may do the good to others that it has to me, not only
  	physically but spiritually, I ask if you have any mission-
21	aries in the work. Being a member of the Episcopal
  	Church, I have always sent what I could to help foreign
  	missions through that church. Will it do the most good
24	to continue so doing, as our foreign missionaries are de-
  	voted men, or have you Christian Science missionaries
  	who devote their lives to the work? 
27	    An answer addressed to me, or published in the Journal,
  	would help one who is seeking to do right. 
  	                       Yours sincerely,          K. L. T. 

30	    I do wish to add my testimony of being healed by
  	reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
 
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 1	tures." I had been an invalid for over twenty years,
  	and had given up all hope of ever being well again. I
 3	had read the book about six weeks, when it seemed
  	I was made all over new, and I could "run, and not be
  	weary; and . . . walk, and not faint." I did not under-
 6	stand it, but it was the savior from death unto life with
  	me; I have remained well ever since I was healed, — 
  	more than five years ago. I commenced to treat others
 9	as soon as I was born anew into the kingdom of Truth. 
  	My patients were healed right along, before I had taken
  	lessons in a class, and they have remained well to this
12	day. 
  	    Christian Science has made me as young as a girl of
  	sixteen. If this should meet the eye of any sufferers
15	who may be led to go and do as I did, they will be
  	healed. — N. A. E. 

  	    Language is inadequate when bearing grateful testi-
18	mony to the book "Science and Health with Key to the
  	Scriptures." By its simple reading, I was healed of ills
  	which baffled the skill of specialists and all curatives
21	that love and money could command. After eighteen
  	years of invalidism, and eight years of scepticism, with-
  	out hope, with no God, — except a First Cause, — I was
24	given up to die. 
  	    A loving friend told me of this book, which was soon
  	brought; and thirty-five pages of the first chapter were
27	read to me that evening. The next morning I got up,
  	walked, and read the book for myself. 
  	    I mention the chapter, for the reason that nearly two
30	years have passed since those wonderful words of Life
 
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 1	were first read to me, and still their sacred sweetness is
  	ever the same. Now I exclaim, God is All! 
 3	                                        MRS. MARY A. R. 

  	    It is impossible for me to keep still any longer. In
  	1885, when I had not known a well day in five years,
 6	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was
  	placed in my hands by a dear lady who insisted upon
  	my reading it, saying she believed it would heal me. Like
 9	many, I was afraid of it, — until I learned what it really
  	was. The friend's words were verified. I was healed
  	by the reading of the book, and for one year continued
12	to read nothing whatever but the Bible and Science
  	and Health. They were my constant study. Through the
  	understanding gained, that God is All, I came to demon-
15	strate with great success, and with but one thought, — 
  	for I knew nothing about giving a "treatment;" I wish
  	I knew as little now, for I believe that healing in Christian
18	Science is to be done in a moment. I became anxious to
  	learn more, to study with the teacher, but funds would
  	not allow, — and I thought to substitute a course in
21	Chicago, perhaps. Every time I would speak of it, how-
  	ever, my dear mother would say, "You have Science and
  	Health and the Bible, and God for your teacher — what
24	more do you need? If I could not go to the teacher, I
  	would not go to any one." 
  	    If I had only heeded the blessed counsel of Truth! 
27	    I went to Chicago, however, so full of confidence in
  	Christian Science that I supposed every one who had
  	studied with Mrs. Eddy must be right. Unfortunately,
30	I took my course with a spiritualist who had been through
 
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 1	two of her classes; discovered my mistake, and went to
  	a mind-cure, — only to find the mistake repeated. Being
 3	an earnest seeker for Truth, I tried again to go to the
  	Massachusetts Metaphysical College; but it was un-
  	certain when there would be a class, so I took a course
 6	with one of Mrs. Eddy's students in Boston. The dark-
  	ness now rolled away. Science and Health once more
  	revealed the light to me as of old. 
 9	    All this time, the mind-curers had me in view, and
  	were sending me reading-matter; but, praise the Lord! 
  	Truth is victorious. 
12	    My dear brothers and sisters, let us be safely guided
  	by the counsels of our Mother, in Science and Health! 
  	I, for one, am astounded that I was so led astray; but I
15	did it all through ignorance, — and the sincere desire to
  	know the truth and to do it, saved me. 
  	                     Your sister in truth,         R. D. 

18	    I have been reading Science and Health for one year
  	and a half, and have had some wonderful demonstra-
  	tions. People here are antagonistic to the Science, and
21	tell me that I am a "fit subject for the asylum." Physi-
  	cians threaten me with arrest, also, but I walk straight
  	on, knowing well in whom I trust. 
24	                                E. I. R., Wauseon, Ohio 

  	    A little over two years ago, while living in Pittsburgh,
  	my wife and I had Christian Science brought to our at-
27	tention. We were at once interested, and bought a copy
  	of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." 
 
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1	At the time, Mrs. A ——  was suffering with severe belief
  	of astigmatism of the eyes. She had been treated by a
 3	number of specialists, during seven years, the last being
  	the late Dr. Agnew of New York, who prescribed two
  	sets of glasses. He said that he could do nothing more
 6	for her, as the trouble was organic; that she must wear
  	glasses constantly; that if she attempted to go without,
  	she would become either blind or insane. The glasses
 9	were in operation, and still life had become a burden
  	from constant pain, when Christian Science came to our
  	relief. Mrs. A ——  had not in years read for two con-
12	secutive minutes, and could not use her eyes in sewing
  	at all. The lady that told us of the Science, insisted that
  	she could read Science and Health, which she actually
15	did, — reading it through twice, and studying it carefully
  	each time. After the second reading, there came the
  	thought that she did not need the glasses, and she at once
18	abandoned them, and went about her usual duties. In
  	about two weeks from that day the eyes were perfectly
  	healed, and are well and strong to-day. 
21	                                      E. G. A., New York City 

  	    My Dear Teacher: — Yours without date is at hand. 
  	Could you know out of what depths of material debris
24	the first reading of the first volume of Science and Health,
  	six years ago last December, lifted me, you would be-
  	lieve it had always been "all I could ask." It was only
27	words from the pen of uninspired writers that gave me
  	pain. As the revelation of the All-good appeared to
  	me, all other books, all forms of religion, all methods
30	of healing, to my sense became void. Chronic beliefs of
 
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 1	disease of twenty years' standing, dimness of sight from
  	the belief of age, all disappeared instantly; indeed,
 3	material life seemed a blank. The why? I could not
  	explain, but this I did know, in this realm of the real I
  	found joy, peace, rest, love to all, unbounded, unspeak-
 6	able. Human language had lost its power of expression,
  	for no words came to me; and in all this six years of bliss
  	I still have found no words to tell my new-found life in
 9	God. The most chronic forms of disease have some-
  	times been healed instantly and without argument. With
  	great love and gratitude. — M. H. P. 

12	    I take great comfort in reading "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures," and will cling firmly to
  	the light I have, knowing that more will be given me. 
15	While in Salt Lake City, I met at the hotel a lady who
  	had been an invalid all her life. I talked with her about
  	Christian Science, and loaned her Science and Health,
18	together with the Journals I had with me. She had
  	become very much discouraged, having lost all faith
  	in doctors and medicine, and did not know where to
21	turn next. She became very much absorbed in the book,
  	feeling she had found salvation. She at once laid aside
  	the glasses she was wearing, and now reads readily with-
24	out them. She and her husband have accepted this truth
  	beautifully. — MRS. G. A. G., Ogden, Utah 

  	    On a trip through Mexico I met a woman who told me
27	that, although she did not believe in Christian Science,
  	on her way from Wisconsin, her home, she had bought
 
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 1	a copy of Science and Health. When she reached M —— ,
  	she met a minister from the North, whom the M. D.'s
 3	had sent there because of consumption, — they had given
  	him two months to live. She gave him Science and
  	Health, and while doing so, felt it was all absurd. The
 6	minister read it, and was healed immediately. Was not
  	this a beautiful demonstration of the power of Truth,
  	and good evidence that Science and Health is the word
 9	of God? 
  	    I had while in Mexico a glorious conquest over the
  	fear of smallpox. There were hundreds of cases in some
12	small towns where we were. After the fear was cast
  	out, never a thought of it as real came to me or my hus-
  	band, or troubled us in any way. On the street I met
15	three men who were being taken to the pest-house with
  	that loathsome disease. — F. W. C. 

  	    A lady to whom I sold "Science and Health with Key
18	to the Scriptures," writes me: "My longing to know
  	God has been answered in this book; and with the answer
  	has come the healing." She is an intimate friend of
21	Will Carleton, the poet. This is doing much good in
  	the social circles. He has for a long time been interested,
  	but his wife has declared it could not heal, and was not
24	Christian. She will now be obliged to acknowledge this
  	healing, for the lady above referred to has been, to sense,
  	a great sufferer. — P. J. L. 

27	    Some of the experiences given in the Journal have
  	been so helpful to me, I have been moved to give to its
 
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 1	readers a little experience of my own, which occurred
  	when I first began the study of "Science and Health with
 3	Key to the Scriptures." 
  	    I had already been healed of sick headache, almost
  	instantly, by declaring that I was God's child, and, as
 6	God is perfect, His child must be perfect also. This had
  	given me great happiness, and a quiet, peaceful state of
  	mind I never had known before. My family did not
 9	seem to see anything good in Christian Science, but to
  	me it was sacred. 
  	    One Monday morning, I awoke feeling very ill indeed. 
12	The morning was warm and sultry. I thought I cer-
  	tainly could not wash that day; but when I went down-
  	stairs, I found my daughter had made preparations for
15	such work. I thought, "Well, if she feels like washing,
  	I will not say anything; perhaps I shall get over this." 
  	After breakfast I went about my work, thinking I could
18	lean against the tub and wash with more ease than I
  	could do up the morning work. I tried to treat myself
  	as I had done before, — tried to realize that "all is Mind,
21	there is no matter;" that "God is All, there is nothing
  	beside Him," but all to no purpose. I seemed to grow
  	worse all the time. I did not want my family to know
24	how badly I was feeling, and it was very humiliating to
  	think that I must give up and go to bed. 
  	    All at once these questions came to me, as though
27	spoken by some one, taking me away from my line of
  	thought entirely:  How is God an ever-present help? 
  	How does He know our earnest desires? Then, with-
30	out waiting for me to think how, the answer came in
  	the same way, God is conscious Mind. Instantly the
  	thoughts came:  Is God conscious of me? Can I be
  
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 1	conscious of Him? I was healed instantly:  every bad
  	feeling was destroyed. I could see that the morning
 3	had not changed a particle, but I was oblivious of the
  	weather. It did not seem that I had anything more to
  	do with that washing. It was finished in good season,
 6	while I was "absent from the body, and present with the
  	Lord." 
  	    That was the beginning of the battle with sin and
 9	self, but at the same time it was the dawning of the resur-
  	rection. Since then (over four years) I have had many
  	experiences, some of which seem too sacred to give to the
12	world. False literature has caused me much suffering;
  	sorrow has visited my home; but, through all this, the
  	light that came to me on that Monday morning — that
15	new and precious sense of omnipresent Life, Truth,
  	and Love — has never left me one moment. It was the
  	light that cannot be hid. 
18	                         MRS. H. B. J., Cambridge, Ill. 

  	HEALING 

  	    Four years ago I learned for the first time that there
21	was a way to be healed through Christ. I had always
  	been sick, but found no relief in drugs; still, I thought
  	that if the Bible was true, God could heal me. So, when
24	my attention was called to Christian Science, I at once
  	bought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
  	studied it, and began to improve in health. I seemed
27	to see God so near and so dear, — so different from
  	the God I had been taught to fear. I studied alone night
  	and day, until I found I was healed, both physically and
30	mentally. 
 
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 1	    Then came a desire to tell every one of this wonder-
  	ful truth. I expected all to feel just as pleased as
 3	I did; but to my sorrow none would believe. Some,
  	it is true, took treatment and were helped, but went
  	on in the old way, without a word of thanks. But still
 6	I could not give up. I seemed to know that this was
  	the way, and I had rather live it alone than to follow
  	the crowd the other way. But as time passed, I had
 9	some good demonstrations of this Love that is our
  	Life. 
  	    I am the only Scientist in Le Roy, as yet, but the good
12	seed has been sown, and where the people once scoffed
  	at this "silly new idea," they are becoming interested,
  	and many have been healed, and some are asking about
15	it. One dear old lady and I study the Bible Lessons
  	every Tuesday afternoon. She came to call, and as we
  	talked, she told me of her sickness of years' standing;
18	and was healed during our talk, so that she has never felt
  	a touch of the old trouble since. 
  	    One lady, whom I had never seen, was healed of con-
21	sumption in six weeks' treatment. She had not left
  	her bed in four months, and had been given up by many
  	physicians. 
24	        MRS. FLORENCE WILLIAMS, Le Roy, Mich. 

  	    I like the Journal and Quarterly, and have many of
  	Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy's works, which make my little
27	world. I have a great desire to learn more of this Love
  	that casts out all fear, and to work in this Science. It is
  	the greatest pleasure I have, to talk this truth, as far as
30	I understand it, to any who will listen; and am waiting
  	for others to learn of this blessed Science. 
  
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1	    I give my experience in reading "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures" aloud to a little child. A
 3	letter published in the Journal, written by a lady who
  	had relieved a two-year-old child by reading to her, first
  	suggested this course to me. At the time, my little one
 6	was a trifle over a year old. I was trying to overcome
  	for him a claim which, though not one of serious illness,
  	was no small trial to me, because of its frequent occur-
 9	rence and its seeming ability to baffle my efforts. One
  	day as I sat near and treated him, it occurred to me to
  	read aloud. I took up one of the older editions of Science
12	and Health lying near, began at the words, "Brains
  	can give no idea of God's man," and read on for two
  	or three paragraphs, endeavoring — as the writer suggested
15	 — to understand it myself; yet thinking, perchance,
  	the purer thought of the babe might grasp the underlying
  	meaning sooner than I. So it proved. Before the dis-
18	turbance felt by me had been calmed, the weary expres-
  	sion on the face of the child was replaced by one of evident
  	relief. 
21	    When putting him to sleep, I had often repeated the
  	spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. One night
  	he was very restless, fretful, and cried a great deal,
24	while I seemed unable to soothe him. At last I per-
  	ceived that he was asking for something, and it dawned
  	upon me that the Prayer might be his desire. I began
27	repeating it aloud, endeavoring to mean it also. He
  	turned over quietly, and in a few minutes was sweetly
  	sleeping. 
30	    The last time my attention was specially called to
  	this subject, was about a year after the first experience. 
  	Various hindrances had been allowed to keep me from
 
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 1	Science and Health all day; and it was toward even-
  	ing when I recognized that material sense had been
 3	given predominance, and must be put down. I soon felt
  	drawn to read the book. The little boy had seemed
  	restless and somewhat disturbed all day; but without
 6	thinking specially of him, rather to assist in holding my
  	own thought, I began to read aloud, "Consciousness
  	constructs a better body, when it has conquered our
 9	fear of matter." In a minute or two a little hand had
  	touched mine, and I looked down into a sweet face fairly
  	radiant with smiles. I read it over. The child was evi-
12	dently delighted, and was restful and happy all the rest
  	of the day. — A. H. W., Deland, Florida 

  	    A week ago a friend wrote to me on business, and in
15	the letter stated that his wife had been very ill for six
  	weeks. At once the thought came, "Tell her to read the
  	chapter on Healing, in Science and Health." In my
18	answer to his letter I obeyed the thought. A few days
  	after, I had occasion to call; found her much better, and
  	reading Science and Health. They had done as directed,
21	and had received the promise. — R., New York 

  	    The first allusion to Christian Science reached me in
  	an article I read on that subject. Later, a friend came
24	to visit me, bringing a copy of "Science and Health with
  	Key to the Scriptures." For two weeks I read it eagerly;
  	then I sent for a copy for myself. When it came, I
27	began to study it. The Bible, of which I had had but
  	a dim understanding, began to grow clearer. The light
  
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1	grew brighter each day. Finally, I began to treat my-
  	self against ills that had bound me for twenty-eight
 3	years. At the end of six weeks I was healed, much to the
  	amazement of all who knew me. From that time, my
  	desire was to help others out of their suffering, and to
 6	talk this wonderful truth. After a while I took the class
  	lectures, and am doing what I can to spread this healing
  	gospel. — A. M. G. 

 9	Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy 
  	    My Dear Leader: — I will try to tell you how I was
  	led to Christian Science. Heretofore I have not tried to
12	lead a Christian life, but have always firmly believed
  	that if one truly desired and needed help, he would get
  	it from God by asking for it. I suffered, as I think but
15	very few have, for fourteen years; yet I did not think it
  	sufficient to warrant me in asking God to help me, until
  	I gave up all hope elsewhere, — and this occurred in the
18	spring of 1891. I then thought that the time had come
  	to commit myself to God. Being at home alone, after
  	going to bed I prayed God to deliver me from my tor-
21	ments, this sentence being the substance of my prayer,
  	"What shall I do to be saved?" 
  	    I repeated that sentence, I suppose, until I fell asleep. 
24	About twelve o'clock at night, I saw a vision in the form
  	of a man with wings, standing at the foot of my bed, — 
  	wings partly spread, — one arm hanging loosely at his
27	side, and one extended above his head. At the same
  	time there was a bright light shining in my room, which
  	made all objects shine like fire. I knew where I was,
30	and was not afraid. The vision (for such it was), after
  
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 1	looking directly at me for some time, spoke this one sen-
  	tence, and then disappeared: "Do right, and thou shalt
 3	be saved." 
  	    I immediately tried to live according to that precept,
  	and found relief in proportion to my understanding. 
 6	I soon after learned of Christian Science. One of my
  	brothers in Kansas, having been healed by it, persuaded
  	me to buy "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
 9	tures," wherein I learned that the above precept was the
  	key to Christian Science; that it is Christian Science to
  	do right, and that nothing short of right living has any
12	claim to the name. 
  	    I have been learning my way in Christian Science
  	about one year, and have been successful in healing. I
15	have all of your books, and am a subscriber for the Jour-
  	nal and Quarterly Bible Lessons. Some of the cases
  	I have treated have yielded almost instantly. I am a
18	stranger to you, but I have told you the truth, just as it
  	occurred. Yours in truth,
  	        SAM SCHROYER, Oklahoma City, Okla. 

21	    I desire to make known the great good I have re-
  	ceived by reading the blessed book "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures." Four years have now
24	passed since I began to read it. It has been my only
  	healer and teacher, as I never have had an opportunity
  	to go through a class; but I find that the "Spirit of truth"
27	will teach us all things if we will but practise well what
  	we know. After two years and a half of study, I thought,
  	as many beginners think, that I had travelled over the
30	worst part of this narrow path. 
  
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 1	    Soon after, it came about that I was separated from
  	every one who had ever heard of Christian Science; and,
 3	as I lived in the country, no one came to visit me for
  	about eight months. At first, I thought the Lord had
  	wrought a great evil. I had no one to talk to, but would
 6	take my Science and Health every morning, before go-
  	ing about my work, and read; yet mortal mind would
  	say, "You can do no good, with no one to talk with." 
 9	At last, one morning after listening to the serpent's voice,
  	I looked out at the little wild flowers as they waved to
  	and fro; they seemed to be a living voice, and this is what
12	they said: "On earth peace, good will toward men." 
  	There was also a mocking-bird that would sit on the
  	house and sing. For the first time, I realized that divine
15	Love was the only friend I needed. Soon after, I sent
  	the Journal to my nearest neighbor, by her little son
  	who came to play with my children. Afterward she
18	told me that when she began to read it she said to the
  	family, "God has sent this book to me." Calling to see
  	her one evening, I found her suffering from heart dis-
21	ease. I began talking to her about Christian Science,
  	and in less than an hour she declared herself healed. 
  	She is to-day a happy woman. I would say to all suf-
24	fering ones, that if you will buy a copy of this wonderful
  	book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
  	by the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, and study it, and
27	practise its teachings, you will find it a pearl of great
  	price. 
  	     MRS. FANNIE MEEKS, Bells, Grayson Co., Texas 

30	    On my arrival in New York, last July, my brother
  	spoke to me of "Science and Health with Key to the
 
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 1	Scriptures;" and, coming in contact with a number of
  	Scientists, all wishing me to procure the book, I did so. 
 3	I read it through in the same manner in which I would
  	read any other book, to find out the contents. 
  	    Before I got to the end, having partly understood its
 6	meaning, I began to demonstrate over old physical trou-
  	bles, and they disappeared. A belt that I had worn for
  	over twelve years, I took off, and threw overboard (being
 9	a seafaring man). 
  	    Up to that time I had been a constant smoker, and
  	chewed tobacco; but I gradually lost all pleasure in it,
12	and now look upon it with disgust. 
  	    I was brought up in the Lutheran doctrine, and when
  	a boy received a good knowledge of Scripture; but I
15	never understood it until explained to me in Science and
  	Health.           H. F. WITKOV, 
  	                    27 Needham Road, Liverpool, England 

18	    In a letter received a few days ago from one of my
  	absent patients, there was such a glorious testimonial
  	for Science and Health that I feel as if I ought to send
21	it in for the pages of our Journal, trusting it may be the
  	means of helping many others to turn for help and com-
  	fort, in every emergency, to this book. 
24	    In her letter, this lady says: "A few days since, I had
  	quite a serious claim attack me. I left my mending, took
  	Science and Health and read all the afternoon and even-
27	ing; when all trace of the claim was gone, and I have
  	felt nothing of it since." 
  	    When this dear woman applied to Truth, she was a
30	great sufferer. Her gratitude knows no bounds. Many
 
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 1	chronic ailments, which have bound her with heavy
  	chains for many years, are being removed one by one. 
 3	It is such a sweet privilege to lead her out of this bond-
  	age of flesh, for she turns with such childlike trust and
  	obedience to the book, and looks to that for aid in every
 6	trial and affliction. It is beautiful to see, and is a rebuke
  	to some of us older in the thought, who depend so much
  	on personality. 
 9	    She is far away, in a little country town where Science
  	has hardly been heard of; but she is so happy with her
  	book that she has no desire for other reading. 
12	    I have always tried to show her that God was with her
  	there as well as with us here; that in Him she possesses
  	all; and that with her Bible and Science and Health no
15	harm can befall her, for the remedy for every ill she has
  	at hand. — MRS. C. H. S., Woburn, Mass. 

  	    I have been an interested reader of the Journal for
18	some time, and thought I would contribute my mite by
  	giving one of my latest demonstrations in Christian
  	Science. 
21	    An accident occurred as follows:  Officers, while hunt-
  	ing for a criminal in thick underbrush, fired upon each
  	other through mistake, and it was found that one was
24	shot six times; two of the bullets passing through the
  	abdomen, and one through the hips. 
  	    Two physicians who examined him had no hope. He
27	asked me to help him. I took the case. Relief came
  	almost instantly. I treated him for eight days; the
  	fifth, I heard one of three physicians, who held a private
30	consultation over my patient, ask him this question:
 
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 1	"Mr. F —— , have you not got one bit of pain?" I was
  	rewarded by hearing him answer, "No, sir; not the least
 3	bit." No one else seemed to have any hope for him; but
  	I held firmly to the thought that God is an ever-present
  	help, never doubting, and Christian Science has again
 6	won a victory. Many people call it a miracle, and it
  	has set them to thinking. 
  	    The harvest is now ripe and ready for the reaper. I
 9	wish some good Christian Science teacher would come
  	and help us. I can help in my own way, but am not
  	advanced enough to lead and teach others. I have only
12	studied Science and Health a little over a year, and have
  	not been through a class yet. 
  	        S. G. SCHROYER, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 

15	    I became interested in Christian Science through be-
  	ing healed. I had no faith in doctors, therefore would
  	not consult any; but felt that something must be done,
18	or I would soon follow a brother and sister who had
  	passed on with the same claim. In my extremity I thought
  	of the "great Physician," and took my case to Him, and
21	realized that He alone could help me. 
  	    A relative, finding I would not consult a doctor or
  	take any drug, gave me "Science and Health with Key
24	to the Scriptures" to read; saying that, although a dear
  	friend thought she was greatly helped by a Christian
  	Scientist, he himself had no faith in that kind of treat-
27	ment, and had no use for the book. 
  	    I had heard of the people called Christian Scientists,
  	and of their textbook, Science and Health, but knew
30	nothing about either; yet I wanted to know, and took
 
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 1	the book gladly, and was soon deeply interested in it. 
  	It was a revelation to me. Although I could only under-
 3	stand it in part, I knew it was the truth, and the truth
  	was making me free. I felt that I had been bound and
  	in prison; and that now, one after another, the bonds
 6	were being broken, and I was lifted into the pure air
  	and light of heaven. I was healed before I had read
  	half-way through the precious volume; for I was obliged
 9	to read slowly, and some passages over and over again. 
  	When I came to page 304, line 10 (47th edition), I then
  	and there felt that I must add my testimony, though
12	already there were "heaps upon heaps;" but since then,
  	I have tried to put the thought of those dark days away
  	from me, and only refer to them now in the hope that
15	some one who is bound may be released and brought
  	into the light of divine Love, which alone can heal, and
  	make us "every whit whole." 
18	                              L. M. C., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

  	    I have been thinking for a long time that I would give
  	my experience in coming out of sickness into the knowl-
21	edge of health by reading "Science and Health with Key
  	to the Scriptures." 
  	    I was sixty years old (as we mortals count time) be-
24	fore I ever read one word of Christian Science. On July
  	2, 1890, I met a Scientist who gave me a pamphlet called
  	"Christian Healing," by the Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy. 
27	At that time I was almost helpless. This lady advised
  	me to buy Science and Health. I did so, and tried to
  	read it; but my hands were so lame I could not hold it,
30	and I let it fall to the floor so often that it became un-
  	bound, and I laid it away and resumed my medicine.   
  
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1	    The following May, the Scientist visited in this city
  	again. She advised me to burn all my medicines and to
 3	lean unreservedly on the promises of God. I took her
  	advice; had my book rebound in three volumes, so I
  	could hold it more easily, and now read it constantly,
 6	reading nothing else. Sometimes I would suffer intensely,
  	then I would get a little better; then more suffering, and
  	so on, until August, 1891, when all pain left me. I have
 9	had no return of it, and no disagreeable sensations of any
  	kind, and am perfectly well in all respects. 
  	    Surely, if we will but trust our heavenly Father, He is
12	sufficient for us. I hope some one of, or near, my age,
  	who is afflicted, may read this and take courage; for I
  	have demonstrated the fact that, by reading Science and
15	Health, in connection with the Bible, and trying to follow
  	the teaching therein, one in the autumn of life may be
  	made over new. I am so thankful to God for my great
18	recovery! 
  	    That remark of Sojourner Truth helps me to a better
  	understanding of Life in God: "God is the great house
21	that holds all His children; we dwell in Him as the fishes
  	dwell in the seas." — P. T. P. 

  	    Until about one year ago, I had no thought of investi-
24	gating Christian Science. Previous to that time it had
  	been presented to me in such a way that I condemned it
  	as unreasonable and absurd. At that time it was pre-
27	sented to me in a more reasonable light. I determined
  	to divest myself of prejudice (as far as was possible)
  	and investigate it, thinking that if there was anything
30	in it, it was for me as well as others; that I surely needed
  
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 1	it, and if I found no good in it, I could then with some
  	show of reason condemn it. 
 3	    I had been reading Science and Health about two
  	weeks, when one morning I wanted my cane. It had
  	been misplaced; and while looking for it the thought
 6	came to me, If all is Mind, I need no cane. I went out
  	without it, have not used it at all since, and do not need
  	it as a support; but for a time I did miss it from my
 9	hand. I had used it for years as a support to a very
  	lame back. 
  	    I before went much stooped, because it pained me to
12	straighten up; but from the time I laid my cane aside I
  	straightened up, free from pain. Occasionally I have a
  	slight pain in my back, but it is nothing to compare with
15	what it had been. 
  	    In a short time after laying my cane aside, my pipe
  	and tobacco went out into the street and have not re-
18	turned. I had smoked for sixty-five years, and chewed
  	for fifty. I have no desire for either of them; in fact,
  	the smoke is offensive to me. 
21	    Many times before I had tried to quit, but the desire
  	for it was so strong that I would go back to it; and when
  	I tried to "taper off," I would make the taper end the
24	longest. 
  	    Many other physical claims have disappeared, and it
  	is a common thing for acquaintances to say when they
27	meet me, "You look better than I have seen you for
  	years; what have you been doing?" My reply is, I not
  	only look better, but feel better, and am better; and
30	Christian Science has done it. 
  	    With all this, I seem to have very little spiritual under-
  	standing of the truth; am endeavoring to get more, but
 
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 1	it seems slow. If there is a shorter road to it than I have
  	found, I should like to be directed to it. 
 3	                                  J. S. M., Joplin, Mo. 

  	    Four years ago I was healed by reading "Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures." The third day,
 6	one of my worst claims gave way. The book was full of
  	light, and disease vanished as naturally as darkness gives
  	place to light, although it was about six months before
 9	I was entirely healed. 
  	    Seeing this truth in its purity, showed me where to
  	take my stand; and in defending it I have the prince of
12	this world to meet. Mortal mind has even called me
  	crazy; but what a blessing to know the nothingness of
  	that mind, and that divine Principle governs all its ideas,
15	and will place each where it belongs! 
  	    If our Master was persecuted, can his servants hope to
  	escape? I know in some degree what Paul meant when
18	he said he rejoiced in tribulations, "for when I am weak,
  	then am I strong." 
  	    Many claims that have baffled the skill of the physi-
21	cians have disappeared through my understanding of
  	Truth. What a blessing that we can break the bread of
  	Life to others, and so add to our crown of rejoicing! 
24	                             S. E. R., Kansas City, Mo. 

  	    A dear little six-year old boy of my acquaintance was
  	invited by his teacher, with the rest of his class in kinder-
27	garten school, to attend a picnic one afternoon. He did
  	not feel that he wanted to go; seemed dumpish, and
 
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 1	according to mortal belief was not well; at noon, he said
  	he wanted to go to sleep. 
 3	    His mother took him in her lap and began to read to
  	him from "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
  	tures." Very soon he expressed a wish to go to the
 6	picnic, and did go. His father, happening to pass the
  	place where the little ones were spending the afternoon,
  	and somewhat surprised to see him playing, as happy
 9	and active as any there, called to him and asked, "How
  	long did you sleep?" The little fellow replied, "I did
  	not sleep at all; mamma read to me from Science and
12	Health, and I was well in a minute." — K. L. H. 

  	    One evening I was calling on a neighbor, and some-
  	how the subject of Christian Science came up. I asked
15	her what it was, and what they believed. 
  	    She then told me of a friend of hers who had become
  	a Christian Scientist. This friend had passed through
18	great sorrow and disappointment; her health had failed
  	her, and her cheerful disposition had entirely changed;
  	she could talk of nothing but her troubles, and was a
21	most unhappy woman. A few years ago she visited my
  	neighbor, who, greatly surprised at her changed appear-
  	ance, — for she was happy and well, — asked where her
24	troubles were. The reply was, "I have no troubles. I
  	have found true happiness; for I have become a Chris-
  	tian Scientist." 
27	    I became deeply interested, and asked if the students
  	in Clinton had public meetings on Sundays. She replied
  	that they had, and told me where they were. 
30	    The next Sunday, I went. All was quiet when I en-
 
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 1	tered, for they were engaged in silent prayer. Soon they
  	repeated the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. 
 3	I shall never forget the impression that made on me; all
  	the next week I heard the leader's voice repeating the
  	first sentence. 
 6	    I was invited to come again, and did so. One of the
  	ladies loaned me "Science and Health with Key to the
  	Scriptures," and offered to get me one; which she did
 9	the next week. I have studied it in connection with the
  	Bible. I have greatly improved in health, having had
  	only one attack of a physical trouble which caused great
12	suffering, since that time, and that was a year ago. 
  	    At first, I did not think anything about being healed,
  	or of my physical infirmity. I only loved the sacred teach-
15	ing. How true, that God's word does not return unto
  	Him void! The words of truth that my neighbor's
  	friend spoke to her, were what first awakened me. If
18	the one who first hears it does not receive it, it goes to
  	some one who is ready, and it takes root and bears fruit. 
  	                          MRS. G. H. I., Clinton, N. Y. 

21	    About three years ago I was near death's door with
  	various troubles; also, was seventy years old. I had a
  	desire to know something of Christian Science. 
24	    I procured the textbook, and studied it with a desire
  	to know the truth. At first all was dark; but light began
  	slowly to come, and at the end of three months I found
27	my physical claims all gone and my eyesight restored. 
  	At the end of three months more, I had gained thirty-
  	five pounds in weight. 
30	    I had been an infidel, and the change from that came
  	more slowly; but now I know that my Redeemer lives,
 
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 1	and I am able by divine grace to make very convincing
  	demonstrations. — J. S., Rudd, Iowa 

 3	    For a long time I have felt that I must in some way
  	express my great debt of gratitude for Christian Science. 
  	I know no better way to do so than to give an account,
 6	through the Journal, of some of the many blessings I
  	have received as a result of our Leader's untiring toil
  	and self-sacrificing love for suffering mortals, in giving
 9	to us the wonderful book, "Science and Health with
  	Key to the Scriptures." 
  	    When I first heard of Christian Science, about six
12	years ago, I was satisfied that it was the religion of Christ
  	Jesus, because Jesus had so plainly said, "And these
  	signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall
15	they cast out devils; . . . they shall lay hands on the
  	sick, and they shall recover." 
  	    I had been a church-member since my girlhood, but
18	was not satisfied that my belief would take me to
  	heaven, as I did not have these "signs following" — and
  	this had always troubled me; so, when I heard that an
21	old acquaintance living at a distance had not only been
  	raised from a dying condition to health, but her life had
  	been changed and purified through Christian Science, I
24	could hardly wait to know more of this Christlike religion
  	which was casting out evils and healing the sick. I
  	searched every bookstore in the city for Science and
27	Health, at last found a copy, and was delighted to get hold
  	of it, but little realized what a treasure it was to be to me
  	and my household. 
30	    At first it was like Greek to me, and I could not un-
 
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 1	derstand much of it, but gleaned enough to keep on
  	reading, and longed for some one to talk to me of it. 
 3	    After I had been reading it about a year's time, I
  	suddenly became almost blind. I knew no Scientist to go
  	to, so went to physicians; they told me that my case was
 6	hopeless, that it was certain my sight never could be
  	restored, and the probabilities were that I would soon be
  	totally blind. 
 9	    I felt sure that Christian Science would help me if I
  	could only fully understand it; but there was no one
  	from whom I could ask help, that I knew of. I gave all
12	the time that I could use my eyes to studying Science
  	and Health, — which at first was not more than five
  	minutes two, and sometimes three, times a day; gradu-
15	ally my sight returned, until it was fully restored. 
  	    During this time God and the "little book" were my
  	only help. My understanding was very limited; but like
18	the prodigal son, I had turned away from the husks,
  	towards my Father's house, and while I "was yet a great
  	way off" my Father came to meet me. When this great
21	cloud of darkness was banished by the light of Truth,
  	could I doubt that Christian Science was indeed the
  	"Comforter" that would lead us "into all truth"? 
24	    Again I lay at the point of death; but holding stead-
  	fastly to the truth, knowing, from the teaching of this
  	precious book, that God is Life and there is no death, I
27	was raised up to health, — restored to my husband and
  	little children, all of whom I am thankful to say are now
  	with me in Science. 
30	    I had no one to talk with on this subject, knew no one
  	of whose understanding I felt sure enough to ask for
  	help; but I was careful from the first not to read or
 
  
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 1	inquire into anything except genuine Christian Science,
  	and how thankful I am for it! Since then, I have been
 3	through a class. 
  	    I cannot express in words what Christian Science has
  	done for my children, or my gratitude that the light of
 6	Truth has come to them in their innocent childhood, — 
  	healing all claims of sickness, and showing us how to over-
  	come the more stubborn claims of sin. — L. F. B. 

 9	    It is a little over one year since a very esteemed friend,
  	of this city, invited me to partake of the heavenly manna
  	contained in the revelation of "Science and Health with
12	Key to the Scriptures." I had, up to that time, been
  	for fifteen years a victim of hip-joint disease; this even-
  	tually confining me to my bed, where I had been ten
15	months when the "book of prophecy" was opened for
  	me. I was not long in finding the light I needed, — that
  	gave "feet to the lame," enabling me now to go, move,
18	and walk, where I will, without crutch or support of any
  	description, save the staff of divine Science. 
  	    In proportion as my thoughts are occupied with the
21	work in Science, does the peace and joy come inwardly
  	that transforms the blight of error externally. 
  	                                T. G. K., Tacoma, Wash. 

24	    I wish to acknowledge the blessings which Christian
  	Science has brought to me through reading "Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures." My first demon-
27	stration was over the tobacco habit; I had smoked for
  	at least fifteen years:  I have now no desire for tobacco. 
  
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 1	    I was then healed of two claims which had bound me
  	for ten years. My prayer is that I may be so filled with the
 3	truth that I can carry the message to my brother man. 
  	                              F. W. K., Angelica, N. Y. 

  	    I take advantage of the great privilege granted us,
 6	to give my testimony for Christian Science through the
  	pages of our much loved Journal. The blessing has
  	been so bountiful that words can but poorly express my
 9	gratitude. 
  	    A little over six years ago, a relative came from Den-
  	ver, Colorado, to visit us. She was a Christian Scientist,
12	having herself been healed of a severe claim that M. D.'s,
  	drugs, and climate could not relieve; and her husband
  	having been in the drug business, she had had a chance
15	to give them a fair trial. 
  	    My sister-in-law did not talk much on the subject, as
  	I remember; but what was better, lived the truth before
18	us as she realized it. 
  	    One day (a blessed day to me), I ventured to open
  	Science and Health, and read the first sentence in the
21	Preface. I closed the book, wondering what more it could
  	contain, this seeming to cover the whole ground. When
  	my sister-in-law returned to the room, I asked her if I
24	might read it. Her reply was, "Yes; but begin at the
  	first." 
  	    That night, after all had retired, I began to read;
27	within forty-eight hours I destroyed all drugs, appli-
  	cations, etc., notwithstanding the fact that my husband
  	had just paid fifty dollars to a travelling specialist for
30	part of a treatment. With the drugs disappeared ail-
 
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 1	ments of nine years' standing, which M. D.'s had failed
  	to relieve. 
 3	    I now understand that my sudden healing was due to
  	my turning completely away from material methods;
  	for I was convinced I should never use them again. I
 6	realized that God was my health, my strength, my Life,
  	therefore All. As I read Science and Health, I won-
  	dered why others had not discerned this truth, — physi-
 9	cians, ministers, and others who had devoted their lives
  	to benefit mankind. Yes! why? Because they had
  	been seeking in the opposite direction to Truth, namely,
12	for cause and effect in matter, when all cause and effect
  	are mental. 
  	    I mention physicians and ministers, because one class
15	claims to heal disease, the other claims to heal sin; but
  	Christian Science heals physically and morally, — it con-
  	tains all; "its leaves are for the healing of the nations." 
18	                               L. B. A., Memphis, Tenn. 

  	    I was for years a great sufferer. I called doctor after
  	doctor, getting no help. The last one, after treating me
21	for one year, told me he would give me one year more
  	to live. 
  	    One evening a near neighbor came in and asked me
24	to go home with her; and as it was only a few steps, I
  	did so. 
  	    She took up a new book, Science and Health, read me
27	a few chapters, and then gave me some Christian Science
  	tracts, which I read, and one of them I almost committed
  	to memory. 
30	    I bought a copy of "Science and Health with Key to
  
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 1	the Scriptures," and studied it carefully. I am healed
  	of all those claims which troubled me so long. I was
 3	lifted out of darkness into light. 
  	                                M. J. P., Burns, Oregon 

  	Chicago, March 19, 1894 
 6	    Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy, Boston, Mass.: — I wish to
  	thank you for the true light that was revealed to me by
  	reading your book, "Science and Health with Key to the
 9	Scriptures," and at once adopting its teaching. It was
  	one year ago to-day that I put on the armor, determined
  	never to surrender to the enemy; and you may know I
12	have looked forward to this day with a great deal of
  	pleasure, to show my friends that the Lord is constantly
  	with me to help overcome all evil. 
15	    Some said, when I first started in this new path, "Wait
  	until you get one of your stomach attacks, and you will
  	change your mind." For months they have waited, and
18	are beginning to see the truth in my actions, that speak
  	for themselves, and show that all is Mind. 
  	    For nearly thirty years I had been a sufferer from
21	throat and stomach troubles; bronchitis, dyspepsia, gas-
  	tralgia, and gastritis, etc., were the terms applied by
  	my physicians. About eighteen years of that time I was
24	engaged in the drug business, had constant opportunities
  	for consulting the best physicians, and took such medicine
  	as I felt assured would cure me; but only to be disap-
27	pointed each time. 
  	    The last few years I had been living on oatmeal crackers
  	and hot water; suffering more or less all the time, and
30	could not eat anything else without suffering intense
 
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 1	pain. I felt as though I could not live many months
  	more, and was getting ready to give up the fight
 3	when a dear friend and neighbor, Mrs. Corning, left
  	a copy of Science and Health at our home. At first I
  	did not care to read it; having been educated, for many
 6	years, in the belief that medicine can cure all diseases, I
  	could not conceive of anything else to cure the sick. 
  	    One Sunday I had the curiosity to know something
 9	about this Christian Science, and read Science and Health. 
  	The more I read, the more interested I became, and
  	finally said to myself, "I will try it." I took a large
12	porous plaster and four thicknesses of flannel off my
  	stomach, and threw them in the corner, saying, "Now
  	it shall be Mind over matter; no more matter over Mind." 
15	I filled a large basket full of bottles containing medicine,
  	and put it in the shed (where all medicine should be). 
  	From that day I have eaten of everything on the table,
18	and all I wished. Coffee was my worst enemy, and I
  	had not tasted it for years without suffering untold agony. 
  	Several days passed before I cared to drink it; then, one
21	morning, I told my family I would commence to use it;
  	I did, and have used it every day since, and don't know
  	that I have a stomach, as it never has caused me any
24	trouble since that morning. 
  	    I am happy to say I have not used a drop of any kind
  	of medicine, internally or externally, from that day, and
27	I know that all is Mind. I read the Bible and Science
  	and Health nearly every day, thanking the Lord for the
  	years of suffering which have led me to the truth as taught
30	by our Saviour; for I feel it was only through its victory
  	over the suffering that the truth could have been revealed
  	in my case. 
  
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 1	    I have had some demonstrations to make over error,
  	but each time it becomes easier. God is ever present
 3	and ready to help me, and I trust in Him; my faith is
  	planted on a rock that is immovable. 
  	                  Yours truly,          FRANK S. EBERHART 

 6	    P. S. If you think this letter, or any part of it, will
  	help some one out of darkness into the light of Truth,
  	you are at liberty to have it published. 

 9	    Having so many occupations and interruptions, I have
  	not found time to read "Science and Health with Key to
  	the Scriptures" sufficiently, but will not on that account
12	delay thanking you for its excellence. 
  	        HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, Cambridge, Mass. 

  	    I am an old-school practitioner; have served as surgeon
15	in two European wars; practised medicine for about
  	ten years in New York city and Brooklyn, until my health
  	compelled me to relinquish my profession. I became
18	a victim of the morphia habit, taking daily thirty grains
  	of that drug. My physicians declared me consumptive,
  	and abandoned all hopes of recovery. Shortly after
21	this I made the acquaintance of a student of the author
  	of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
  	who presented me with her works; and as drugs did me
24	no good, I stopped taking any whatever, save morphia,
  	without which I thought it impossible to get along, and
  	to my astonishment began to gain in flesh, and my am-
27	bition returning in proportion. I finally felt that I would
  	stop my loathsome habit of morphia-eating, and did so
  
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 1	in one week, without any discomfort worth mentioning. 
  	For a test I administered one fourth of a grain of morphia
 3	to the aforesaid Scientist, hypodermically, without the
  	slightest physiological effect, clearly proving the existence
  	of metaphysical laws. I have read Science and Health
 6	carefully, and consider my present improved health solely
  	due to mental influence. 
  	                 OTTO ANDERSON, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio 

 9	    The profound truths which you announce, sustained
  	by facts of the immortal life, give to your work the seal
  	of inspiration — reaffirm in modern phrase the Christian
12	revelations. In times like these, so sunk in sensualism,
  	I hail with joy your voice, speaking an assured word for
  	God and immortality, and my joy is heightened that these
15	words are of woman's divinings. 
  	                      A. BRONSON ALCOTT, Concord, Mass. 

  	    I was sick six years; tried many physicians and reme-
18	dies, but received no lasting benefit from any of them,
  	and concluded I must remain sick the rest of my life. 
  	In this condition, I purchased the book "Science and
21	Health with Key to the Scriptures," read it, was deeply
  	interested, and noticed that my health began to improve;
  	and the more I read the book, the better I became in
24	health. This I can say truly:  it did more for my health
  	than all the physicians and remedies that I had ever
  	tried. — DR. S. G. TODD, 11 School St., Newburyport 

27	    I had been a nervous sufferer for nine years; had a
  	belief of incurable disease of the heart, and was subject
 
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 1	to severe nervous prostration if I became the least weary. 
  	I was told that if I should read your books they would
 3	cure me. I commenced reading them:  in ten days I was
  	surprised to find myself overcoming my nervous spasms
  	without the aid of medicine; and ever since then I have
 6	been improving, and I now can walk twenty miles without
  	fatigue, and have been able to rise above all ailments. 
  	                    MRS. JULIA A. B. DAVIS,
 9	                       Central Village, Westport, Mass. 

  	    I would inform my friends and the public, that after
  	twelve years of sickness I am restored to health; and,
12	with renewed vigor and keen enjoyment, take up the
  	pleasures and duties of life once more; all labor now
  	seems less arduous, and all happiness more perfect. To
15	Christian Science, as taught in "Science and Health with
  	Key to the Scriptures," I am indebted for my restoration. 
  	I can cordially recommend this book to all. 
18	                    ROSE A. WIGGLESWORTH, Lowell, Mass. 

  	    When I commenced reading "Science and Health with
  	Key to the Scriptures," I could sit up but a very short
21	time, and could not eat the most simple food without
  	great distress. In a few days there was a great change,
  	and I have been growing better ever since. 
24	                      E. D. RICHARDSON, Merrimac, Mass. 

  	    I have not been as well for years as I have been since
  	reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
27	all of which I impute to its teaching. 
  	                (MRS.) MARY A. WILLIAMS, Freeport, Ill. 
  
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 1	    Had been in ill-health for several years; had been
  	confined to my bed three months, when I got your book
 3	and read it. At first I was unable to read it myself, and
  	others read it to me, and the truth revealed in your book
  	restored me to health. 
 6	                  (COL.) E. J. SMITH, Washington, D. C. 

  	    I have been perusing with great interest your work
  	on metaphysical Science, for the last four months, and
 9	to great advantage; you make the path to health so plain,
  	that a wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot err therein. 
  	                              R. I. BARKER, Bethel, Me. 

12	    "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" "is
  	a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path;" your
  	missiles of Mind have battered down the illusions of sense,
15	allowing Life to appear an eternal monument, whose
  	spirited hieroglyphics, Truth and Love, unlike those cut
  	in marble, shall grow more luminous to consciousness as
18	sickness, sin and death fade out of belief. 
  	                                     ARTHUR T. BUSWELL,
  	         Office of Associated Charities, Cincinnati, O. 

21	    "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is
  	beautiful in its form of thought and expression. I have
  	perused it with interest. Your book tends to lead us to
24	new thoughts and practices in the healing art, and for
  	many maladies I have no doubt the treatment your ex-
  	cellent work introduces will be the only remedy. 
27	           (COL.) ROB'T B. CAVERLY, Centralville, Mass. 
 
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 1	    Undoubtedly "Science and Health with Key to the
  	Scriptures" is the greatest and grandest book ever pub-
 3	lished; and that by pulpit and press it will be so ac-
  	knowledged, is only a question of time. Yours has,
  	indeed, been a pioneer work, and will be; and I believe
 6	that you, of all the millions, are selected and chosen be-
  	cause of your peculiar fitness for this great work — this
  	grand work of opening the gates and leading the way,
 9	that fallen humanity may follow step by step; reach up
  	to Christ, and be made whole! That all this should be
  	systematized and proven with mathematical precision, — 
12	that there can be no guesswork or quackery, — is simply
  	astounding. Science and Health has given me a new
  	impetus heavenward. 
15	                       M. A. HINKLEY, Williamsport, Pa. 

  	    The book "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
  	tures" is the most wonderful work that has been written
18	in the past five thousand years. I wish you could get
  	ten dollars per copy. I am of the opinion that I can heal
  	the sick on its basis, from reading the work. 
21	                     H. D. DEXTER, M. D., Dundee, N. Y. 

  	    Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy's book, "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures," has been duly catalogued
24	and placed on our shelves for use. In behalf of the trus-
  	tees, let me convey cordial thanks to the earnest-minded
  	author for this interesting contribution. My own idea
27	is, that the power of Mind or Spirit is supreme in char-
  	acter, and destined to supremacy over all that is adverse
  	to divine order. WILLIAM H. KIMBALL,
30	                  Librarian New Hampshire State Library 
 
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 1	    I am reading the work, "Science and Health with
  	Key to the Scriptures," for the third time; and I am
 3	convinced of the truth of the Science of which it treats,
  	 — instructing us how to attain holiness of heart, purity
  	of life, and the sublime ascendency of soul over body. 
 6	             C. CLEMENT, McMinnville, Warren Co., Tenn. 

  	    I was sick for a number of years with what some of
  	the most skilful physicians pronounced an incurable
 9	disease. The more I tried to get help, the worse I be-
  	came, until a life of pain and helplessness seemed un-
  	avoidable. Two years ago I heard of "Science and
12	Health with Key to the Scriptures," began reading it
  	and trying to live up to its teachings. At first, my be-
  	liefs were so strong I made but little progress; but grad-
15	ually my disease gave way, and finally disappeared, and
  	to-day I am a well woman. I cannot express the grati-
  	tude I feel for what the light shining through the teachings
18	of that book did for me. 
  	                      (MRS.) EMILY T. HOWE, Norway, Me. 

  	    I have been reading "Science and Health with Key
21	to the Scriptures," and feasting — like a starving, ship-
  	wrecked mariner, on the food that was to sustain him
  	 — on truths which ages to come will appreciate, under-
24	stand, and accept. Many of the theories which at first
  	appear abstruse and obscure, at length become clear and
  	lucid. The candle of intellect requires occasional snuff-
27	ing to throw the clear light of penetration on the page. 
  	                       (MRS.) S. A. ORNE, Malden, Mass. 
 
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 1	    The mother of a little girl about eight years old told
  	me her child was having a severe attack of cold, and
 3	was delicate and easy to take cold. I told her the little
  	girl would be all right; not to give her any medicine, but
  	read Science and Health to her. When I next saw the
 6	mother, she told me the little girl was entirely well; that
  	the cold had all disappeared, and with it a claim of night-
  	sweats that the child had been under for more than a
 9	year. The little girl had been out sliding down-hill in
  	the snow a number of times; had her feet very wet, but
  	it did not affect her at all. They were all pleased, — 
12	especially the child; her face was beaming with hap-
  	piness and smiles. This is just one little instance of the
  	good that comes from reading Science and Health. 
15	                                               T. W. H. 

  	OPINIONS OF THE PRESS 

  	    This is, perhaps, the most remarkable book on health,
18	in some respects, which has appeared in this country. 
  	The author evidently discards physiology, hygiene, mes-
  	merism, magnetism, and every form of medication, bath-
21	ing, dieting, etc., — all go by the board; no medicine,
  	manipulation, or external applications are permitted;
  	everything is done through the mind. Applied to cer-
24	tain conditions, this method has great value:  even the
  	reading of the author's book has cured hopeless cases. 
  	The author claims that her methods are those used by
27	Christ and his apostles, and she has established a church
  	and school to propagate them. — Herald of Health, N. Y. 
  	(M. L. HOLBROOK, Publisher) 
  
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 1	    The Christian Scientists claim that the power of heal-
  	ing is not lost, and have supported that claim by induc-
 3	ing cures astonishingly like those quoted from the New
  	Testament. And even more good they hope to achieve,
  	as this power which they possess is better understood
 6	and the new light gains strength in the world. Experi-
  	ence has taught us that the nearer we approach to the
  	source of a report of miraculous power, the smaller does
 9	the wonder grow. In the instance of the Christian Sci-
  	entists, the result has been rather the reverse; if third
  	parties have related a remarkable circumstance, the person
12	of whom the fact was alleged has been found to make
  	the assertion still stronger. — Boston Sunday Globe 

  	    "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by
15	Mary Baker G. Eddy, President of the Massachusetts
  	Metaphysical College, is a remarkable publication,
  	claiming to elucidate the influence of mentality over
18	matter. Mrs. Eddy announces herself as the discoverer
  	of this metaphysical Science, and receives students, to
  	whom she imparts so much of her metaphysics as their
21	minds are capable of receiving. The volumes are a
  	vigorous protest against the materialism of our modern
  	scientists, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, etc. Her Science
24	of Mind was first self-applied:  having been ill and treated
  	by doctors of the various schools without benefit, she
  	discovered the grand Principle of all healing to be God,
27	or Mind. Relying on this Principle alone, she regained
  	her health, and for the last sixteen years has taught
  	this theory to others, and has healed the sick in all cases
30	where the patient's mentality was sufficiently strong to
 
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 1	understand her teachings and act upon them. — Brooklyn
  	Eagle 

 3	    The book "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
  	tures" is certainly original, and contains much that
  	will do good. The reader will find this work not influ-
 6	enced by superstition or pride, but striking out boldly,
  	 — full of self-sacrifice and love towards God and man. — 
  	Christian Advocate, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 9	    The doctrines of "Science and Health with Key to
  	the Scriptures" are high and pure, wholly free from
  	those vile theories about love and marriage which have
12	been so prevalent among the spiritualists. This new
  	sect devotes itself to a study of the Bible, and a practice
  	of curing disease without mesmerism or spiritualism. It
15	treats Darwin and materialists with a lofty scorn. — 
  	Springfield Republican 

  	    "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is
18	indisputably a wonderful work. It has no equal. No
  	one can read the book and not be benefited by it in mind
  	and body. The work is endorsed by some of the best
21	men of the age. — Star-Spangled Banner 

  	    We shall watch with keen interest the promised results
  	of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." 
24	The work shows how the body can be cured, and how
 
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1	a better state of Christianity can be introduced (which
  	is certainly very desirable). It likewise has a hard thrust
 3	at spiritualism; and, taken altogether, it is a very rare
  	book. — Boston Investigator 

  	    The author of "Science and Health with Key to the
 6	Scriptures," which is attracting much attention, shows
  	her ability to defend her cause with vigor. — Boston
  	Weekly Journal 

 9	(By permission) 

  	HOW TO UNDERSTAND SCIENCE AND HEALTH 

  	    My Dear Friend H.: — Your good letter of the 26th
12	ult. came duly to hand several days ago, and I am not
  	greatly surprised at its contents. You say, in substance,
  	that you procured the book, "Science and Health with
15	Key to the Scriptures," which I recommended, and
  	that to your surprise and disgust you found it to be a
  	work on faith-cure, and ask by what process of reason-
18	ing I could possibly bring myself to adopt or accept
  	such visionary theories. In answer to your very nat-
  	ural question, I will try, in my own way, to give you
21	what appears to me to be a reason for the hope that is
  	in me. 
  	    My religious views of fifteen years ago are too famil-
24	iar to you to need any exposition at my hands at this
  	time. Suffice it to say that the religion of the Bible,
  	as taught by the churches, to my mind appeared to be
 
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1	self-contradictory and confusing, and their explanations
  	failed to explain. During the next eleven years my
 3	convictions underwent little change. I read everything
  	that came in my way that had any bearing upon, or
  	pretended in any degree to explain, the problem of life;
 6	and while I gained some knowledge of a general nature,
  	I was no nearer the solution of life's problem than when
  	I began my investigations years ago, and I had given
 9	up all hope of ever being able to come to a knowledge
  	of the truth, or a satisfactory explanation of the enigma
  	of life. 
12	    In all my intellectual wanderings I had never lost my
  	belief in a great First Cause, which I was as well satis-
  	fied to call God as anything else; but the orthodox ex-
15	planations of His or its nature and power were to my
  	mind such a mixture of truth and error, that I could not
  	tell where fact left off and fancy began. The whole ef-
18	fort of the pulpit being put forth, seemed directed to the im-
  	possible task of harmonizing the teachings of Jesus Christ
  	with the wisdom of the world; and the whole tendency
21	of our religious education was to befog the intellect and
  	produce scepticism in a mind that presumed to think
  	for itself and to inquire into the why and the wherefore. 
24	I fully believe that the agnosticism of yourself and my-
  	self was produced by the futile attempt to mix and har-
  	monize the wisdom of the world with the philosophy of
27	the Christ. 
  	    In my investigations into the researches of the savants
  	and philosophers I found neither any satisfactory expla-
30	nation of things as they seemed to exist, nor any solu-
  	tion of the great and all-absorbing question, "What is
  	Truth?" Their premises appeared to be sound, and
 
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1	their reasonings faultless; but in the nature of things,
  	no final conclusion of the whole matter could be reached
 3	from premises based wholly on material knowledge. 
  	They could explain "matter" and its properties to their
  	own satisfaction, but the intelligence that lay behind or
 6	beyond it, and which was manifested in and through it,
  	was to them as much of a mystery as it was to the hum-
  	blest of God's creatures. They could prove pretty con-
 9	clusively that many of the generally accepted theories
  	had no basis in fact; but they left us as much in the
  	dark regarding Life and its governing Principle as had
12	the divines before them. 
  	    About four years ago, while still in the mental condi-
  	tion above indicated, my attention was called to what at
15	that time appeared to me to be a new phase of spiritism,
  	and which was called by those who professed to believe
  	in it, Christian Science. I thought that I had given some
18	attention to about all the isms that ever existed, and that
  	this was only another phantasm of some religionist lost
  	in the labyrinths of mental hallucination. 
21	    In my reflections at that time it seemed to me that
  	life was an incomprehensible enigma; that the creator
  	had placed us on this earth, and left us entirely in the
24	dark as to His purpose in so doing. We seemed to be
  	cast upon the ocean of time, and left to drift aimlessly
  	about, with no exact knowledge of what was required of
27	us or how to attain unto the truth, which must certainly
  	have an existence somewhere. It seemed to me that in
  	the very nature of things there must be a great error
30	somewhere in our understanding, or that the creator
  	Himself had slipped a cog when He fitted all things into
  	their proper spheres. That there had been a grand mis-
 
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 1	take somewhere I had no doubt; but I still had doubt
  	enough of my own capabilities and understanding to be-
 3	lieve that the mistake, whatever it was, was in me and
  	not in the creator. I knew that, in a fair measure at
  	least, I had an honest desire to live aright, as it was given
 6	me to see the right, and to strive to some extent to do the
  	will of God, if I could only know certainly just what it
  	was. 
 9	    While in this frame of mind, I inwardly appealed to
  	the great unseen power to enlighten my understanding,
  	and to lead me into a knowledge of the truth, promising
12	mentally to follow wherever it might lead, if I could only
  	do so understandingly. 
  	    My wife had been investigating Christian Science to
15	some extent, but knowing my natural antipathy to such
  	vagaries, as I then thought them, had said very little to
  	me about it; but one day, while discussing the mysteries
18	of life with a judge of one of our courts, he asked me
  	whether I had ever looked into the teachings of the Chris-
  	tian Scientists. I told him that I had not, and he urged
21	me very strongly to do so. He claimed to have investi-
  	gated their teachings, and said that he had become a
  	thorough believer in them. This aroused my curiosity,
24	and I procured the book called "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures," and read it. Before read-
  	ing very far in it, I became pretty thoroughly nauseated
27	with what I thought the chimerical ideas of the author,
  	but kept on reading, — more because I had promised to
  	read the book than because of interest in its teachings;
30	but before I had gotten through with it, I did become
  	interested in the Principle that I thought I discovered
  	the author was striving to elucidate; and when I got
 
  
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 1	through it, I began again and reread it very carefully. 
  	When I had finished reading this book the second time,
 3	I had become thoroughly convinced that her explana-
  	tion of the religion taught by Jesus Christ, and what
  	he did teach, afforded the only explanation which, to
 6	my mind, came anywhere near harmonizing and making
  	cohesive what had always seemed contradictory and
  	inexplicable in the Bible. I became satisfied that I had
 9	found the truth for which I had long been seeking, and
  	I arose from the reading of the book a changed man;
  	doubt and uncertainty had fled, and my mind has never
12	been troubled with a serious doubt upon the subject from
  	that day to this. 
  	    I do not pretend to have acquired the power it is claimed
15	we may attain to; but I am satisfied that the fault is in
  	me, and not in the Principle. I think I can almost hear
  	you ask, What! do you believe in miracles? I answer
18	unhesitatingly, Yes; I believe in the manifestations of
  	the power of Mind which the world calls miraculous;
  	but which those who claim to understand the Principle
21	through which the works are done, seem to think not
  	unnatural, but only the logical result of the application
  	of a known Principle. 
24	    It always did seem to me that Truth should be self-
  	evident, or at least susceptible of unmistakable proof, — 
  	which all religions seemed to lack, at least in so far as I
27	had known them. I now remember that Jesus furnished
  	unmistakable proofs of the truth of his teachings, by his
  	manifestations of the power of Mind, or, as some might
30	call it, Spirit; which power he plainly taught would be
  	acquired by those who believed in the Principle which he
  	taught, and which manifestations would follow as signs
  
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 1	that an understanding of his philosophy had been reached. 
  	It does seem to me, that where the signs do not follow
 3	professing Christians which Christ said should follow
  	them, there must be something wrong, either in his teach-
  	ings or their understanding of them; and to say the
 6	least, the foundations of their faith require a careful re-
  	examination, with a view to harmonizing them with the
  	plain teachings of the Christ in whose footsteps they
 9	profess to follow. 
  	    I never could understand how God could be ever-pres-
  	ent as a personal Being, but I think I can and do under-
12	stand how divine Principle can pervade every thing and
  	place. 
  	    I never could understand how heaven could be a place
15	with gorgeous fittings, but I think I can and do under-
  	stand how it might be a spiritual (or if you please mental)
  	condition. Jesus said, "The kingdom of God cometh
18	not with observation:  neither shall they say, Lo here! 
  	or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within
  	you." 
21	    "Knowledge (or understanding) is power." Since
  	adopting the views of life as set forth in "Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures," I have seen proofs
24	of what can be accomplished through a knowledge of the
  	truth, which to my mind amount to demonstrations, and
  	which no longer seem incredible, but which I do not ask
27	another to accept upon my statements. Every one must
  	see or feel for himself in order to be convinced; but I
  	am satisfied that any who will lay aside their preconceived
30	notions, and deal honestly with themselves and the light
  	they have, will come to a knowledge of the truth as illus-
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 1	that Mind, or Soul, or whatever you may be pleased to
  	call it, is the real Ego, or self, and that mortal mind with
 3	its body is the unreal and vanishing, and eventually goes
  	back to its native nothingness. 
  	    Truth is, and ever has been, simple; and because of
 6	its utter simplicity, we in our pride and selfishness have
  	been looking right over it. We have been keeping our
  	eyes turned toward the sky, scanning the heavens with
 9	a far-off gaze in search of light, expecting to see the
  	truth blaze forth like some great comet, or in some ex-
  	traordinary manner; and when, instead of coming in
12	great pomp and splendor, it appears in the simpleness
  	of demonstration, we are staggered at it, and refuse to
  	accept it; our intellectual pride is shocked, and we are
15	sure that there has been some mistake. Human nature
  	is ever the same. The Jews were looking for something
  	transcendently wonderful, and the absence of it made
18	the Christ, Truth, to them a stumbling-block. It was
  	foolishness to the Greeks, who excelled in the worldly
  	wisdom of that day; but in all ages of the world it has
21	ever been the power of God to them that believe, not
  	blindly, but because of an enlightened understanding. 
  	    I always did think that there was something beautiful
24	in the philosophy of life as taught by Jesus Christ, but
  	that it was impracticable and not susceptible of applica-
  	tion to the affairs of life in a world constituted as this
27	appeared to be. As I now view it, that belief was the
  	result of ignorance of the real power that "moves the
  	universe," — too much faith in matter or effect, and not
30	enough in Mind or cause, which is God. 
  	    To one who can accept the truth that all causation is
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1	matter and into Mind, or Spirit, for all that is real and
  	eternal, and for all that produces anything that is last-
 3	ing, the doubts and petty annoyances of life become
  	dissolved in the light of a better understanding, which
  	has been refined in the crucible of charity and love; and
 6	they fade away into the nothingness from whence they
  	came, never having had any existence in fact, being only
  	the inventions of erring human belief. 
 9	    Read the teachings of the Christ from a Christian Science
  	standpoint, and they no longer appear vague and mysti-
  	cal, but become luminous and powerful, — and, let me
12	say, intelligible. 
  	    It is true, as you intimate, that this theory of life is
  	much more generally accepted by women than by men,
15	and it may be true that as a rule their reasoning is much
  	less rigid in its nature than that of the sterner sex, and
  	that they may be liable to scan their premises less keenly;
18	but may it not also be true, that they are of finer texture
  	and more spiritual in their natures, and that they may
  	be just as likely to arrive at the truth through their in-
21	tuitions, in connection with their logic, as we are through
  	the more rugged courses? If it be true that man is the
  	more logical, the fallibility of our own reasonings very
24	frequently becomes painfully apparent even to ourselves,
  	and they are therefore not the safest gauge by which to
  	judge others. 
27	    I believe, myself, that when it comes to standing up
  	for Truth in the face of the world, and possibly at the
  	sacrifice of position and popularity, women possess the
30	necessary courage in a much greater degree than do
  	men. 
  	    I had not intended to weary you with such a long
  
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1	letter, but after getting into the subject, I hardly knew
  	where to stop. As an old and loved friend, I have given
 3	you a glimpse of my inner life, because I hardly knew
  	how to explain my mental condition to you in any other
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