Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
654:1
but as I grew older I began to question my beliefs,
but as I grew older I began to question my beliefs,
and to my questions I could find no satisfactory an-
swer. I became dissatisfied and finally ceased attend-
ing church. I could not accept the idea of God taught
there, and at last my friends looked sadly upon me as
an atheist. There I stood until I learned to know God
as revealed in Science and Health, and then all my
questionings were answered. In my girlhood I had
always prayed to the God I held in mind, and when
the shadows of sickness pain, and death came to my
family, I prayed as only those can who know that if
He helps not, there is none; but my prayers were
unanswered. Then I closed my Bible, saying, "There
is a mistake somewhere, perhaps some time I may
know."
654:16
Only those who know the attitude of mind that I
Only those who know the attitude of mind that I
was in can understand the joy that came to me as I
began to learn of God in Christian Science, and of my
relation to Him.
654:20
Many proofs of the healing power of Truth and of
Many proofs of the healing power of Truth and of
His protecting care throng my thoughts. Seven years
ago, when we were in a far distant country, where
Christian Science was then unknown, my little daughter
came in one morning from her school, saying, "Mother,
I have measles; twenty of the girls are sick in bed and I
am afraid they will put me there also." Her face, hands,
and chest were covered with a deep red rash, throat sore,
and eyes inflamed. We began immediately to do our work
in Science and at night, when I left her at the door of the
college, her face was clear, her eyes bright, and all fear
destroyed. That was the end of the disease. – F. M. P.,
Boston, Mass.