Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
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and with such interest that my afflictions disappeared
and with such interest that my afflictions disappeared
"like mist before the morning sun." Asthma (thought
to be hereditary), neuralgia in an aggravated form, and
besides these, the tobacco and liquor habit of many years'
standing left me. Bless the Lord, "He sent his word"
and healed me, – for the reading of Science and Health
brought to my consciousness the truth that makes free. –
S., Shellman, Ga.
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CONSUMPTION QUICKLY CURED
CONSUMPTION QUICKLY CURED
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I became interested in Christian Science nearly five
I became interested in Christian Science nearly five
years ago through the healing of my wife of what the
doctors called consumption in its last stages. I had tried
everything that I could get in the way of materia medica,
and every doctor would tell me nearly the same story
about the case. At last they recommended for her only
a higher, drier climate, and when she would be at her
worst to give her something to quiet her.
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I tried different climates, but she was no better,
I tried different climates, but she was no better,
indeed worse. At last she struggled along until the
first of March, 1899. She had taken to her bed again.
For two days and nights she suffered, and I called a
physician. He came and diagnosed the case, and said
that he could do nothing for her but give her some
morphine tablets to make her rest. I gave her two
of them according to direction, and just before the
time to give her the third, she called me to her bed-
side, and said, "Don't give me any more of that stuff,
for it does me more harm than good," so I turned and
placed them in the fire, though I did not then know any-
thing about Christian Science. We had heard of it, but
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that was all. I gave her the last tablet at eight o'clock
that was all. I gave her the last tablet at eight o'clock
that night, and about nine o'clock the next day a lady
who had been healed in Christian Science visited her,
and introduced her to this great truth. She accepted it
and thought she would try it. The lady loaned her Sci-
ence and Health. She got the book about ten o'clock
that day and read it until dinner was called. She ate a
hearty dinner, the first in about three days, and that same
evening she dressed herself, walked into the dining-room,
ate a hearty supper and enjoyed it. She slept well that
night. She borrowed this lady's copy of Science and
Health two hours each day for eight days, and was
healed. The first day that she read Science and Health
she weighed about ninety-five pounds. Three months
later she weighed one hundred and thirty-five pounds. –
A. J. D., Houston, Tex.
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A PROFITABLE STUDY
A PROFITABLE STUDY
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It may help others to know that some one was really
It may help others to know that some one was really
healed of severe illness through Christian Science. It
is over nine years since we first became interested in
the Science, and it would be hard to find a healthier
person than I am now. I can go all day, from morn-
ing till night, upheld by the thought that "they that
wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." I
can truly say that I scarcely know what physical wear-
iness is any more. Before I came into Science the
physicians said that one lung was gone, and that the
other was affected with tuberculosis; so, from their
standpoint, there was little left for me to hope for. We
had tried every remedy that they had suggested. I had