Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
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that I would not live a year, or if I did succeed in liv-
that I would not live a year, or if I did succeed in liv-
ing longer, I would be mentally unbalanced. On Decem-
ber 6, 1902, my wife presented me with Science and
Health as a birthday gift, and it was indeed the
best present I ever received. Since that time I have
been reading it and attending the Second Church
here. I have not used any medicine since, nor has any
one in our home. I am in the finest of health and have
lost all my bad habits. This truth has brought a great
spiritual uplifting to all of us, and words cannot express
my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy and to all who have helped
me to the same. – T. V., Chicago, Ill.
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FIBROID TUMOR DESTROYED
FIBROID TUMOR DESTROYED
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When quite young I was impressed that the Bible
When quite young I was impressed that the Bible
was not properly interpreted by the preachers, for I
could not conceive of a God of wrath who was unjust
enough to allow His little ones to suffer pain, misery, and
death. I had hope, however, that some day the truth
would be revealed to an awakening world, but little did
I dream that even then there was one of God's noble
women who reflected sufficient purity and holiness to
entertain the "angel of his presence," and commune with
the true God.
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I was believed to be predisposed to scrofula, so that
I was believed to be predisposed to scrofula, so that
I was not a strong or attractive child, and my girlhood
and womanhood were scarcely ever free from dread of
the laws of matter and lack of strength. The climax
was reached when a physician informed me, after weeks
of treatment, that I had a fibroid tumor, which required
an operation. The conditions were most trying and I
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was heartsick and discouraged when, in January, 1893,
was heartsick and discouraged when, in January, 1893,
I heard of Christian Science through a letter from a dear
sister who had been greatly benefited thereby, and I re-
solved to go at once to a practitioner, for I believed it
to be the long-lost truth that would make me free. It
meant a great effort and sacrifice for me to go to Chicago
at that time, but divine Love opened the way and I reached
there in March. I had been in my sister's home but
a few days, reading Science and Health almost con-
stantly, when I asked her if I had not better have
treatment for the tumor, which had given me so much
trouble. She said to me, "You feel well, do you not?"
I assured her that I never had felt so well as I had since
reaching there. "Well," she said with decision, "your
tumor is gone, for God never made it," and her statements
were true, for it has never been heard of from that day.
Since then I have been healed of chronic sore throat,
hay fever, and other troubles, and I know that Christian
Science is the truth. – B. W. S., Coldwater, Mich.
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LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS
LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS
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I have received so much benefit from the testimonies
I have received so much benefit from the testimonies
in the Sentinel and Journal that I send mine, hoping
it may cheer some struggling heart. I was reared by
kind and loving Christian parents and was a member
of an orthodox church for over twenty years, but I was
never satisfied. I was filled with fear and bound down
by the false gods of this world, – sin, disease, and pov-
erty; consequently every way I turned, and in everything
I attempted to do, I was met with disappointment and
failure; but God was leading me into a different life.