Chapter 18: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XVIII - Fruitage

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Then there appeared some complications, so distressing

that I was unable to walk far, and had to sit down fre-

quently by the way. I thought I had Bright's disease, –

such excruciating pains, no tongue could tell my suffer-

ings. With all these things upon me, death seemed very

near. I had never joined any church, and I thought it

now too late, as I would have to wait six months on pro-

bation, and I would be dead before that.

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About this time I made some inquiries of my sister in

reference to Christian Science, as she had already turned to

that faith, and I soon found that it was just what I had

been looking for. I saw at once that it declared the truth

and nothing but the truth. I commenced reading Science

and Health, also the New Testament. I wanted to find

out what Jesus said, as I did not expect then to live long.

I did not go to the meetings, nor did I read Science and

Health to be cured, – not thinking of that, – but to be

saved from an everlasting hell hereafter. My sister urged

me to have a practitioner, but I kept on reading, and

praying to God in silence, and what happened? Where

had the diseases gone? I persisted in reading Science

and Health, together with the Bible, with the knowl-

edge that God as revealed by Christ Jesus can do

everything, that He made everything that was made,

that He can and does heal the afflicted. He has healed

me, thanks to His most holy name. – G. J. H., Charles-

ton, Ill.

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GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS

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In the year 1901, Christian Science found me a hope-

less invalid. I had suffered for seven years previous with

a very painful back, the result of an operation. I could