Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
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gone to the mountains, but could not stay there on account
gone to the mountains, but could not stay there on account
of the altitude; and when they did not know what else
to do, they said we would better go to England – that
the ocean air would be beneficial. So we spent three
months in the British Isles, and when I came back I
seemed much better, but this only lasted a short time.
In little more than a month I was worse than ever, and
my mother was told that I had but a few weeks, or at
most months, to live.
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At that time, a lady, a stranger to us, suggested that
At that time, a lady, a stranger to us, suggested that
we try Christian Science. There was no prejudice against
it, as we did not even know what it was. We knew of
no Scientists in the Western town where we were living,
and when we were told that we could send to Kansas City
for absent treatment, we thought it was absurd. We were
then told that many people had been healed through the
reading of the Christian Science textbook, Science and
Health, and to us this seemed a little worse than the
absent treatment, but as we had tried everything we
had heard of up to that time, my mother sent for the
book.
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It came in the middle of October and we began to read
It came in the middle of October and we began to read
it together. It seemed to me from the first that it was
something I had always believed, but did not know how
to express – it seemed such a natural thing. My im-
provement was very gradual, but I felt I was recovering.
After the Christmas holidays I started in at school and
went the whole term without missing a day, – some-
thing I had never done before. I finished my school
course without missing a day – in fact, I have not spent
a day in bed since that time. I feel absolutely certain
that I have two sound, healthy lungs now. The hollows
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in my chest have filled out, and I breathe perfectly on both
in my chest have filled out, and I breathe perfectly on both
sides; rarely have a cold to meet, and have not a sign of
a cough.
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People sometimes say, "Oh, well, maybe you never had
People sometimes say, "Oh, well, maybe you never had
consumption." Well, I had all the symptoms, and they
are every one gone through the reading of Science and
Health. – E. L. B., Chicago, Ill.
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HEALED OF INFIDELITY AND MANY PHYSICAL ILLS
HEALED OF INFIDELITY AND MANY PHYSICAL ILLS
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I feel compelled to write my testimony and hope that
I feel compelled to write my testimony and hope that
I may be accepted as one more witness to the Truth as con-
tained in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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In the year 1883 I first heard of Christian Science. I
In the year 1883 I first heard of Christian Science. I
was sitting in a saloon in Leadville, Col., reading a daily
paper of that place. My eyes lighted upon an article
which spoke of some peculiar people in Boston who
claimed to have discovered how to heal as Jesus healed.
I do not remember much of the article, but those words
stayed with me.
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I had drifted out to Colorado from New York City (my
I had drifted out to Colorado from New York City (my
home), where I had been under the treatment of many
leading physicians. The last one, who was too honest
to take my money knowing that he could not cure me,
advised me to keep away from doctors and quit taking
medicine, as nothing but death could cure me. My
trouble was pronounced by some to be Bright's disease,
by others gravel on the kidneys with very acute inflam-
mation of the bladder and prostate gland.
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In the spring of 1888 my wife and myself were spend-
In the spring of 1888 my wife and myself were spend-
ing the evening at the house of a gentleman whose wife
had been healed in the East by Christian Science. The