Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
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grounded in my mentality from youth have been over-
grounded in my mentality from youth have been over-
come. It required some time for me to wake up to
our Leader's words in Miscellaneous Writings, p. 206:
"The advancing stages of Christian Science are gained
through growth, not accretion." I had many disappoint-
ments and falls before I was willing to do the scientific
work required to prove this statement; yet notwithstanding
the cost to ourselves, I am convinced that we cannot do
much credit to the cause we profess to love until we place
ourselves in a position to prove God as He really is to us
individually, and our relation to Him, by scientific work.
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I wish to express loving gratitude to our Leader for
I wish to express loving gratitude to our Leader for
the new edition of Science and Health. In studying
this new edition one cannot help seeing the wisdom,
love, and careful and prayerful thought expressed in
the revision. Often the changing of a single word in
a sentence makes the scientific thought not only more
lucid to him who is familiar with the book, but also to
those just coming into the blessed light. All honor to
that God-loving, God-fearing woman, Mary Baker G.
Eddy, whose only work is the work of love in the helping
of mankind to help themselves; who has placed before her
fellow-men understandingly, what man's divine rights are,
and what God really is. – H. W. B., Hartford, Conn.
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RUPTURE AND OTHER SERIOUS ILLS HEALED
RUPTURE AND OTHER SERIOUS ILLS HEALED
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When I took up the study of Christian Science
When I took up the study of Christian Science
nearly three years ago, I was suffering from a very
bad rupture of thirty-two years' standing. Sometimes
the pain was so severe that it seemed as if I could not
endure it. These spells would last four or five hours,
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and while everything was done for me that could be
and while everything was done for me that could be
done, no permanent relief came to me until I com-
menced reading Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures. After I had once looked into it I wanted to
read all the time. I was so absorbed in the study of
the "little book" that I hardly realized when the healing
came, but I was healed, not only of the rupture, but also
of other troubles, – inflammatory rheumatism, catarrh,
corns, and bunions.
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I would never part with the book if I could not get
I would never part with the book if I could not get
another. I am seventy-seven years old, and am enjoy-
ing very good health. – Mrs. M. E. P., St. Johnsbury, Vt.
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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER HEALED
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER HEALED
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When Christian Science came to me, I had been tak-
When Christian Science came to me, I had been tak-
ing medicine every day for twenty years, on account of
constipation. I had been treated by doctors and spe-
cialists; had taken magnetic treatments and osteopathy;
had tried change of climate; had an operation in a hospital,
and when I came out was worse than before. I was
so discouraged, after I had tried everything I ever heard
of, and was no better but rather grew worse, that it seemed
as though I must give up trying to get well, when a friend
suggested that I try Christian Science. I had heard
that Christian Scientists healed by prayer, and I thought
this must be the way Jesus had healed. I felt that this
was all there was left for me to try. I sent for the book,
Science and Health, and commenced to read it out of
curiosity, not thinking or knowing that I could be helped
by the reading, but thinking I must still take medicine
and that I must also have treatment by a Scientist. I,