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

Chapter XVIII - Fruitage

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the birth of my first child, and at one time necessitated

an operation. I suffered with about all the ills that

flesh is heir to: I had trouble with my eyes from a child;

wore glasses for fourteen years, several oculists saying

I would go blind, one declaring I would be blind in less

than a year if I did not submit to an operation, which I

refused to do.

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But thanks be to God whose Truth reached me through

the study of our textbook. Words fail to express what

Christian Science has done for me in various ways, for

my children, my home, my all. The physical healing

is but a small part; the spiritual unfolding and uplifting

is the "pearl of great price," the half that has never been

told. – Mrs. J. P. M., Kansas City, Mo.

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TEXTBOOK APPRECIATED

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It has been my privilege to have interviews with

representatives of more than sixty per cent of the na-

tions of this earth, under their own vine and fig-tree.

I had never heard a principle understandingly ad-

vanced that would enable mankind to obey the apos-

tolic command, "prove all things," until Science and

Health with Key to the Scriptures was placed in my

hands. I believe that the honest study of this book

in connection with the Bible will enable one to "prove

all things."

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I make this unqualified statement because of what

my eyes have seen and my ears heard from my fellow‑

men of unquestioned integrity, and the positive proofs

I have gained by the study of these books. Many

supposed material laws that had been rooted and