Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
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CURING BETTER THAN ENDURING
CURING BETTER THAN ENDURING
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For eight years I was a great sufferer from weak
For eight years I was a great sufferer from weak
lungs and after being treated by ten different physi-
cians, in the States of Illinois, Missouri, and Colo-
rado, I was told there was no hope of my recovery
from what they pronounced tuberculosis, which was
hereditary, my father having been afflicted with it. I
was greatly emaciated and hardly able to be about.
My general condition was aggravated by what the doc-
tors said was paralysis of the bowels. Three physi-
cians so diagnosed it at different times, and assured
my husband that I could never get more than tem-
porary relief. This indeed I found difficult to obtain,
in spite of my almost frantic efforts. At times I was
nearly insane from suffering, and after eight years of
doctoring I found myself steadily growing worse. For
four years I did not have a normal action of the bowels,
and it was only by extreme effort and by resort to pow-
erful drugs or mechanical means, with resultant suffering,
that any action whatever could be brought about.
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I had heard nothing of the curative power of Chris-
I had heard nothing of the curative power of Chris-
tian Science, and only to oblige a friend I went one
night, about three years ago, to one of their mid-week
testimonial meetings, in Boulder, Colorado. I was much
impressed by what I heard there, and determined at once
to investigate this strange religion, in the hope that it
might have something good for me. I bought the text-
book, Science and Health, and from the first I found
myself growing stronger and better, both physically and
mentally, as I acquired a better understanding and en-
deavored toput into practice what I learned. In one week
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I was able to get along better without drugs than I had for
I was able to get along better without drugs than I had for
years with them, and before three months had passed I
was better than I had been any time in my life, for I
had always suffered more or less from bowel trouble.
Since that time I have taken no medicine whatever, and
rely wholly upon Christian Science. My lungs are now
sound, my bowels normally active, my general health
excellent, and I am able to endure without fatigue
tasks that before would have prostrated me. The
study of our textbook was the sole means of my healing.
– L. M. St. C., Matachin, Canal Zone, Panama.
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SEVERE ECZEMA DESTROYED
SEVERE ECZEMA DESTROYED
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It is only two years since I came from darkness into
It is only two years since I came from darkness into
the light of Christian Science, and to me the spiritual
uplifting has been wonderful, to say nothing of the
physical healing. Words cannot express my gratitude
for benefits I have received in that time. For five
years I suffered with that dreaded disease, eczema, all
over my body. Five doctors said there was no help
for me. The suffering seemed as terrible as the hell
fire that I had been taught to believe in. When Christian
Science came to me two years ago through a dear friend,
she gave me a copy of Science and Health and asked
me to read it. I told her that I would, for I was like a
drowning man grasping at a straw. I had been a Bible
student for twenty-eight years, but when I commenced
reading Science and Health with the Bible I was healed
in less than a week. I never had a treatment. A case
of measles was also destroyed in twenty-four hours after
it appeared. – Mrs. M. B. G., Vermilion, Ohio.