Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
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SCIENCE AND HEALTH A PRICELESS BOON
SCIENCE AND HEALTH A PRICELESS BOON
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I am a willing witness to the healing power of Chris-
I am a willing witness to the healing power of Chris-
tian Science, having had a lifetime's battle with dis-
ease and medical experiments. Various doctors finally
admitted that they had exhausted their resources, and
could only offer me palliatives, saying that a cure was
impossible. I had paralysis of the bowels, frequent
sick headaches with unutterable agony, and my mortal
career was nearly brought to an end by a malignant
type of yellow fever. Many were the attending evils of
this physical inharmony, but God confounds the wis-
dom of men, for while studying Science and Health
two years ago, the veil of ignorance was lifted and
perfect health was shown to me to be my real con-
dition, and to such there is no relapse. The constant
use of glasses, which were apparently a necessity to
me for years, was proven needless, and they were laid
aside. Mrs. Eddy has made Scripture reading a never‑
failing well of comfort to me. By her interpretation
"the way of the Lord" is made straight to me and
mine. It aids us in our daily overcoming of the tyr-
anny of the flesh and its rebellion against the blessed
leading of Christ, Truth. The daily study of the Bible
and our textbook is bringing more and more into our con-
sciousness the power of God unto salvation. – J. C.,
Manatee, Fla.
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A CRITIC CONVINCED
A CRITIC CONVINCED
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With gratitude to God I acknowledge my lifelong
With gratitude to God I acknowledge my lifelong
debt to Christian Science. In 1895 I attended my first
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Christian Science meeting, and was deeply impressed
Christian Science meeting, and was deeply impressed
with the earnestness of the people and the love re-
flected, but as for the spiritual healing of the physical
body, I did not believe such a thing to be possible.
I bought Science and Health and studied it to be
able to dispute intelligently with the supposedly de-
luded followers of Christian Science. I pursued the
study carefully and thoroughly, and I have had abun-
dant reason since to be glad that I did, for through this
study, and the resultant understanding of my rela-
tion to God, I was healed of a disease with which I
had been afflicted since childhood and for which there
was no known remedy. Surely my experience has
been the fulfilling in part of the Scripture:
"He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from
their destructions." I believe that Science and Health
reveals the Word referred to by David. – C. A. B. B.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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BORN AGAIN
BORN AGAIN
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It was in April, 1904, that I first heard the "still,
It was in April, 1904, that I first heard the "still,
small voice" of the Christ and received healing through
Christian Science; and the blessings have been so
many since, that it would take too much space to
name them. Reared from childhood in an intellectual
atmosphere, my paternal grandfather having been an
orthodox minister of the old school for forty years,
and my father a deep student, ever seeking for the
truth of all things, I began early to ponder and to
study into the meaning of life, and came to the con-
clusion before I was twenty that though God probably