Chapter XVIII - Fruitage
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the birth of my first child, and at one time necessitated
the birth of my first child, and at one time necessitated
an operation. I suffered with about all the ills that
flesh is heir to: I had trouble with my eyes from a child;
wore glasses for fourteen years, several oculists saying
I would go blind, one declaring I would be blind in less
than a year if I did not submit to an operation, which I
refused to do.
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But thanks be to God whose Truth reached me through
But thanks be to God whose Truth reached me through
the study of our textbook. Words fail to express what
Christian Science has done for me in various ways, for
my children, my home, my all. The physical healing
is but a small part; the spiritual unfolding and uplifting
is the "pearl of great price," the half that has never been
told. – Mrs. J. P. M., Kansas City, Mo.
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TEXTBOOK APPRECIATED
TEXTBOOK APPRECIATED
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It has been my privilege to have interviews with
It has been my privilege to have interviews with
representatives of more than sixty per cent of the na-
tions of this earth, under their own vine and fig-tree.
I had never heard a principle understandingly ad-
vanced that would enable mankind to obey the apos-
tolic command, "prove all things," until Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures was placed in my
hands. I believe that the honest study of this book
in connection with the Bible will enable one to "prove
all things."
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I make this unqualified statement because of what
I make this unqualified statement because of what
my eyes have seen and my ears heard from my fellow‑
men of unquestioned integrity, and the positive proofs
I have gained by the study of these books. Many
supposed material laws that had been rooted and
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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,