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

Chapter XVIII - Fruitage

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troubles I suffered every winter with rheumatism and

the grip. I also had a growth coming on both eyes called

cataract, which caused my eyes to be inflamed nearly

all the time, and this growth had made such progress

that it was causing my vision to be very dim when read-

ing. Corns were not forgotten, as I was reminded of

them very frequently, and for all these troubles I had tried

every remedy I heard of that I was able to get, specialists

included, without relief.

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Thanks to a friend who took me in this hopeless, dis

couraged condition and led me to the light that never

knows darkness, I got a copy of Science and Health by

Mrs. Eddy and was healed in a short time by reading this

work. – D. W. L., Anderson, Ind.

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RELIEF FROM INTENSE SUFFERING

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I became interested in Christian Science in 1901. For

four or five years I had suffered with severe attacks which

nothing but an opiate seemed to relieve. After one

which I think was the worst I ever had, I consulted our

family physician, who diagnosed my case as a dangerous

kidney disease and said that no medicine could help me

but that I must undergo a surgical operation. I con-

tinued to grow worse and went to see the physician again,

and he advised me to consult a doctor who was connected

with the city hospital of Augusta. This doctor made

an examination and diagnosed the difficulty as some-

thing different but quite as serious. Meanwhile a friend

offered me a copy of Science and Health. I said I did

not care to read the book, but she was so urgent that I

finally promised to do so. I received the book on Satur-