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"Heal
the sick"
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In
the Old Testament we read that
the people "wondered" when the
ancient prophets healed the sick
and raised the dead. In the New
Testament we are told that the
people "wondered" when Jesus made
"the dumb to speak, the maimed to
be whole, the lame to walk, and
the blind to see." But as Paul
asked King Agrippa, "Why should
it be thought a thing incredible
with you, that God should raise
the dead," so the Christian
Scientist asks, Why should it be
thought a thing incredible with
you that God should heal the
sick? Did not Christ Jesus say,
"He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do
also"? Christian Scientists
believe in Christ Jesus, and are
endeavoring to obey his commands
to "preach the gospel" and "heal
the sick."
W.J.W.
Booth
Christian
Science Sentinel
February 7, 1920
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"The
healing Christ is
with us
now"
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Years
ago when I first heard of
Christian Science it was
presented as something absurd and
to be avoided, so I went on in
ignorance, making fun of it or
seriously advising people against
it. Only when in despair over
what would have been lifelong
disfigurement to a darling child,
and when doctors sadly and
regretfully told me that nothing
could be done, did I turn to God,
the loving Father-Mother, as He
is presented to us in Christian
Science. Within three weeks the
child's limbs became perfectly
straight. Words can never express
my gratitude for this and many
subsequent proofs that the
healing Christ is with us now,
just as much as when our Lord
healed the sick and sinning
nearly two thousand years
ago.
Hon.
Lady Henniker Heaton
Christian
Science Sentinel
January 25, 1919
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"There
is no death;
God is his
life."
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My
husband was restored when he had
to mortal sense passed on. It was
the clear thought of my little
son that did this work. Having
hurried to my husband's side as I
saw the change, I turned to
the child and told him his father
was dead. Quickly he answered,
"There is no death; God is his
life," and running to the side of
the couch he began calling his
father to awake. Faintly and
slowly the pulse resumed its
action, the color came into the
lips, and after a little while he
opened his eyes and said, "I
thought I was gone." The child's
face seemed glorified as he
triumphantly exclaimed, "I told
you God was his life."
Hazel
Zeigler
Christian Science Sentinel
June 28, 1919
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Healing
of a
Horse
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A
well-authenticated case has just
come to my attention of the
recent healing of a mounted
policeman's horse, twenty-four
years old, and a great favorite
because of long and faithful
service. One morning the horse
was found blind and with both
hind legs paralyzed. A veterinary
said there was no remedy, and
ordered the horse shot. The
patrolman's wife, who had known
something of the teachings of
Christian Science, asked to try
that method of healing. A
practitioner took up the case,
and in a very few days the horse
was perfectly normal and again in
service.
Albert
F. Gilmore
Christian
Science Sentinel
October 26, 1918
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Fire
Extinguished
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One
morning while I was using an
alcohol lamp a fire broke out on
my table. Several inflammable
articles were near and the blaze
was quite high. I left the room
to get water but could find
nothing in which to fetch it. On
returning I found that the flames
had increased. The window
curtains were near, and my fear
was intense, for I was alone in a
stranger's house. I cried out,
What shall I do? and the answer
came: There is but one way. Turn
to God. I stood and faced the
flames, knowing that matter
cannot burn, for
all is infinite Mind. They
immediately went out.
I had used no material means and
had proved that "perfect love
casteth out fear," for on page
586 of Science and Health Mrs.
Eddy has interpreted fire as
"fear."
Gertrude
E. Phipps
Christian
Science Sentinel
May 10, 1919
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Back
Injury
Healed
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.
. . I slipped and severely
wrenched my back. Thinking the
strain would disappear in a day
or two, I paid no attention to
it; but instead of getting better
it grew worse, and I was thinking
of calling a doctor. As I was
leaving the house, however, my
wife, who had been studying
Christian Science for several
years, asked me if I wanted her
to call up a practitioner and
obtain help for me. I hesitated,
as I could not see how Christian
Science would do me any good, but
on considering that it had proved
successful with my wife and other
members of the family, although I
doubted that it would benefit me,
I gave her permission to
telephone for help. I went on
with my business, and during the
afternoon I suddenly realized
that I could bend over without
any pain. This seemed very
wonderful to me. When I returned
home, my wife told me she had
talked to the practitioner, and
it was then I learned that I had
been instantaneously
healed.
John
W. Parker
Christian Science Sentinel
June 13, 1925
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Anxiety
Attacks
Healed
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Several
years ago I became ill with a
form of nervousness which came
upon me about five months before
my first child was born. Instead
of the trouble leaving me, as I
had supposed it would, it
gradually became worse; so that
by the time the child was a year
old I realized I was losing in
the struggle. My mother went with
me to a specialist, but I left
his office feeling very much
discouraged at what had been
said. The same evening I was led
in a very unexpected way to take
up the study of Christian
Science. I studied the textbook,
"Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy,
very earnestly and prayerfully;
and about five years later, while
experiencing an unusually severe
nervous attack, I received an
instantaneous and perfect
healing. It was wonderful! For a
moment, matter and material
surroundings were forgotten, and
my consciousness was just flooded
with the knowledge of the divine
presence. The spiritual uplift
which followed this healing was
too wonderful for words; for
there was a sense of peace, joy,
and security, to me before
unknown, and I was as sure of
God's presence as I was of my
own.
Olga
M. Cesan
Christian Science Sentinel
February 6, 1926
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Mrs.
Eddy's
Accomplishments
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I
used to wonder why Christian
Scientists always spoke of Mrs.
Eddy with such tenderness and
reverence. But since I have
become familiar with the
struggles of her life and know
how bravely she persisted, and
how surely and successfully she
has given to suffering humanity
the Science of the healing power
of the Christ, I too reverence
this great woman and feel
confident that she was divinely
sustained and guided in this holy
work.
Ruth
Browning Buck
Christian Science
Sentinel
December 18, 1926
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Healing - Reformation -
Transformation
Christian
Science Testimonies
A - F
". . . The
prayer of faith shall save the sick . . ." St.
James
The following testimonies are from early issues
of The Christian Science Journal and
Sentinel.
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ABNORMAL
GROWTH
HEALED
"A friend who had known of my
slight interest in Christian
Science asked if she might have a
practitioner treat me until the
day of the operation, and I
rather indifferently consented,
promptly forgetting all about the
promised treatment."
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ABNORMAL
GROWTH
HEALED
"It is over seventeen years since
I first heard of Christian
Science. At that time I was a
physical wreck. There was an
abnormal growth on my breast, for
which an operation was to be
performed, but I was asked to try
Christian Science . .
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ABNORMAL
GROWTH
HEALED
"For some ten or twelve years I
had on the back of my neck a
large lump, which my physician
said was a cyst or small tumor,
not dangerous, and removable by
the knife or electric needle. As
it gave me no pain I had nothing
done for it, and rarely gave it a
thought unless some one happened
to question me concerning
it."
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ABSCESS
AND COUGH
HEALED
"My husband and sisters proposed
all sorts of things for me to do,
and considered it almost criminal
that I did nothing (as they
thought); but I wrote to a lady
who had already helped me in
Christian Science . .
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"ABSENT
FROM THE BODY ... PRESENT WITH
THE
LORD"
"I came to Christian Science, as
thousands of others, in search of
health. A member of my family had
been wonderfully benefited by its
teaching; and, after a noted
specialist in New York had
pronounced my case beyond the
reach of material means, I turned
in my despair to God."
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ACCIDENT,
HEALING OF EFFECTS
OF
"She did not see or hear the
approaching delivery truck which
struck her on the head,
shattering the glass over the
lamps of the machine."
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ACCIDENT
HEALED, EFFECTS OF
AN
"To mortal sense it was a very
severe accident. I was placed in
a cast, and forty pounds of
weight were attached to the
injured leg. The next day I
called a Christian Science
practitioner, as the verdict of
the doctors was that I would be
crippled for life and probably
never able to walk
again."
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ACCIDENT
HEALED, EFFECTS OF
AN
"My son was caught between two
large oil trucks. His face and
the upper right side of his body
were caught and held between two
radiators, one car pressing him
against the other. When he was
released the foreman saw his
condition and had little or no
hope for his
recovery."
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ADDICTION
OVERCOME
"Eventually a doctor prescribed a
solution containing a
considerable percentage of
cocaine as a means of affording
temporary relief, which I was
told to use only on occasions of
great distress."
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AILMENTS
HEALED
"The doctor attending my case did
his best, but the disease grew
worse. Then a friend, who herself
had been healed through Christian
Science of a severe kidney
trouble called my attention to
this teaching."
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"ALL
MY TROUBLES LEFT
ME"
"One day we heard of the healing
by Christian Science of a
malignant growth, and it seemed
so wonderful to me that my
husband took me to see the one
who had been healed."
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ANGEL
THOUGHTS
"These angel thoughts led me to
my Father's house, the
consciousness of perfect harmony,
where I could be at peace, in
calm and rest, while all around
was trouble, danger, and
dismay."
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ANKLE,
HEALING OF
INJURED
"On page 420 of 'Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures' by Mrs. Eddy is found
this advice: 'If students do not
readily heal themselves, they
should early call an experienced
Christian Scientist to aid them.'
This was a great help to me at
one time.
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APPENDICITIS
HEALED
"I feel it is my duty to express
our heartfelt gratitude for all
the good which has come to us in
Christian Science."
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APPENDICITIS
HEALED
"Having been the wife of a
physician and druggist for more
than twenty years, I was familiar
with the symptoms of many
diseases. One morning I awoke
quite early with the most intense
pain, and immediately realized I
was suffering from
appendicitis."
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APPENDICITIS
HEALED
"Ten years ago I was taken
violently ill with appendicitis,
and though every attention from
the most skilled physicians was
given me, they felt I must
go."
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APPENDICITIS
HEALED
"One day I witnessed an
instantaneous healing by
Christian Science and then
realized that this religion must
be the truth."
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ASTIGMATISM
HEALED
"As soon as I began to read the
book, I felt that in some way I
was being helped and spiritually
uplifted."
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"AWAKENING
FROM AN AWFUL
DREAM"
"Through work and worry I began
to decline in health, and my
condition became worse, until I
was a nervous wreck, and spent
most of my time in
bed."
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BABY,
HEALING OF
A
"When I entered the room I found
the baby limp and white in the
nurse's arms, scarcely breathing;
and the nurse, in tears, said
there seemed to be no life
left."
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BABY,
HEALING OF
A
"Christian Science has been a
great help to me in every way. It
has made me strong and well and
given me something to live
for."
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BLESSED
BY TURNING TO
GOD
"The dark days are remembered,
not with bitterness, but only
with thanksgiving, because they
forced me to find God, who, in
place of causing evil, as I had
believed, blesses His children
when they turn to
Him."
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BLESSED
SCIENCE
"One year ago I looked upon the
founder of Christian Science as
one of the 'false Christs' spoken
of in the Gospel of
Matthew."
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"BLESSING
IN TIME OF
NEED"
"One day a friend came to see me
and brought a lady with her,
saying as she came into the room,
'Cheer up, Sarah, I have brought
you something now that will heal
you.'"
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BLINDNESS
HEALED
"Christian Science came to me in
the darkest hour of a mother's
life — when the discovery
was made that my baby was born
blind."
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BOIL,
HEALING OF
A
"For some time I have wished to
express my gratitude for all the
blessings that Christian Science
has brought into my life. I have
found that it is indeed a 'pearl
of great price.'"
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BOWEL
ABSCESS
HEALED
"Everything known to medical
science had been done, with no
success. So it was decided to
take up Christian
Science."
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BRIGHT'S
DISEASE
HEALED
"Christian Science, revealed by
Mary Baker Eddy to this age,
literally kept me from the
grave."
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BROKEN
LEG
HEALED
"While returning from my work one
night, I fell from a bridge and
sustained a serious injury to my
leg."
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BURN,
HEALING OF A
"My
daughter's little boy, thirteen
months old, in passing along
before the open grate, fell with
one hand right into the
fire."
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BURNS
HEALED
"Wishing to save my house, I
started to throw the wax out by
the back door. I opened the
inside door, but the storm door
blew back against me, knocking
the blazing wax all over me. I
ran out of the front door with my
clothing all ablaze."
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BURNS,
A HEALING
OF
"Material conditions could not
overthrow the government of
omnipotent Love, and I was
entirely free from
suffering."
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BURNS,
HEALING
OF
". . . My dress, which had
recently come from the cleaner's,
caught fire at the bottom, and in
a few seconds I was enveloped in
flames."
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BURNS,
HEALING
OF
"This is a very wonderful case of
healing and taught me a
much-needed lesson, — to be
more constant in my study and to
stick closer to
Truth."
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CATARACT
QUICKLY
CURED
"I wish to add my testimony to
those of others, and hope that it
may be the means of bringing some
poor sufferer to health, to
happiness, and to God. I was
healed through simply reading
this wonderful book, Science and
Health."
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CHARACTER
TRANSFORMED
"I read the works of the best
known atheists, but could nowhere
find a conclusive proof of the
assertion that there is no God;
for at decisive, important points
all these writings drew illogical
conclusions."
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CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
INDISPENSABLE
"Through the great love and
patience manifested by my mother
in a sincere effort to live the
life of a Christian Scientist, I
was attracted to her
religion."
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CLEAR
VISION
RESTORED
"I
have had many beautiful proofs of
God's presence and power, one
being the laying aside of
glasses, which I had worn since a
child of seven."
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CORNS
AND WARTS
HEALED
"This case of healing has been a
wonderful help to us all, and we
hope it may be of benefit to
others. It was indeed a surgical
operation performed by
Truth."
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CROUP,
HEALING OF
THE
"One experience I would like to
mention in particular was the
instantaneous healing of my
little girl of the
croup."
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DARK
CLOUDS
DISPELLED
"The doctor attended the child
for three weeks, but he did not
get any better, and to mortal
sense was gradually slipping away
from us."
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DEEPLY
GRATEFUL
"I had never thought to ask for
treatment for this condition; but
while I was studying the Lesson
Sermon and reading the textbook,
'Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures' by Mary Baker
Eddy, this trouble and other
ailments vanished into their
native nothingness."
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DEFORMITY
HEALED
"Our second child was born with
the bones of her legs and ankles
malformed, the ankles being so
turned that the soles of the feet
were toward each
other."
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DIGESTIVE
TROUBLES
HEALED
"Christian Science found me with
no religion whatsoever and a
materialist to the minutest
detail. Today it presents me
buoyant with hope, with an
unquestioned faith, firmly
convinced of the existence of
Deity, and with some
understanding, at least, of the
nature of this divine,
all-inclusive
Principle."
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DISCORDANT
CONDITIONS
HEALED
"I was led to Christian Science
when, as an active member of an
orthodox church, I was seeking
with all my heart to know more of
God, to be able to make practical
to the needs of humanity the
beautiful promises in the
Bible."
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DISEASE,
HEALING
OF
"With
a deep sense of gratitude and joy
I wish to tell of a blessing
which I have received through
Christian Science."
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DISEASES
QUICKLY
HEALED
"In seven short days of earnest,
honest study of Science and
Health I was entirely relieved of
burdens I had carried since
childhood."
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DISLOCATED
BONE
HEALED
"During these years many
demonstrations have taken place,
of one of which I must tell, as
it was a most striking example of
the power of Christ,
Truth."
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DIVINE
PROTECTION
"Our little daughter, then three
years and a half of age, one
Sunday wandered from our ranch in
western Texas, which was then our
home. Search was begun about
twenty minutes after she
disappeared, but nothing could be
found to give us an idea of which
way she had gone."
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DOCTOR
ACCEPTS CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
"Some five years ago I was
practicing medicine with no
thought or knowledge of Christian
Science. About this time, a
friend asked me to investigate
Christian Science and let her
know what I thought of
it."
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DOCTOR
BECOMES A CHRISTIAN
SCIENTIST
"I began to read Science
and Health and in it found food,
for it aroused a desire to know
something about the works of
Jesus; and I seemed from the
first to be confident that it
contained the truth about God and
His creation."
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DOCTOR
GRATEFUL FOR CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
"The grateful and reverential
thought of the hour, on this
beautiful day of national
thanksgiving, impels the recall
from memory's pages of the
experiences of years gone
by."
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DOG
BITE, HEALING OF
A
"I desire to contribute my mite
to the efficacy of Christian
Science, as taught by [Mrs.
Eddy], the advent of which
every man, woman, and child
should hail with joy."
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DROWNING,
SAVED
FROM
"I feel more grateful for this
experience than any other that I
have had. We read in Psalms, 'The
Lord is nigh unto all them that
call upon him, to all that call
upon him in truth.'"
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EARTHQUAKE
SURVIVOR'S
EXPERIENCE
"He was buried for three hours
under a mass of debris, through
the collapse of a hotel; his
mouth and nose were almost
stopped up with mortar, and his
body was crushed into a seemingly
impossible space."
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EFFECTS
OF EXPLOSION
OVERCOME
". . . I met error in the form of
a powder burn in the fall of
1906, when I was a student at the
University of Idaho."
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EYE
INJURY
HEALED
"One day during the month of
August, 1917, while I was curling
my hair a hot iron slipped from
my hand, striking the ball of my
right eye, causing severe
pains."
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EYE
PROBLEM
HEALED
"About two years ago I awoke one
morning to find myself unable to
see out of one eye."
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FAINTING
SPELLS
HEALED
"It is now nearly seven years
since Christian Science was first
brought to my notice. Up to that
time, I was almost continually
under a physician's care,
scarcely knowing a well
day."
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FAITH
AND HEALTH
RESTORED
"To many people the restoration
of their religious faith means
much more than the restoration of
physical health, but both came to
me through reading the Christian
Science textbook, 'Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures' by Mrs.
Eddy."
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FALL,
HEALED
AFTER
"Last summer in cherry time, two
little girls were playing one
afternoon. As they were climbing
trees, Grace fell from a high
tree to the ground."
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FALSE
APPETITES
HEALED
"I took to the use of liquor and
tobacco, sometimes indulging to
such extremes that a doctor would
be called to attend me, and were
I to go into the details of my
sufferings and those brought to
my beloved ones, the loss of
their affection for me, as well
as my experiences in search of
relief, it would require many
pages."
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FEAR
OF DENTAL WORK
HEALED
"A
few months ago I had to have
considerable dental work done.
For five years or more intense
fear had kept me from having work
of any extent done, and the need
had become very
great."
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FEVER
HEALED
"I was in the country away from
any possibility of getting help
from a practitioner and had one
evening what appeared to be a
fever. I was feeling very
miserable, so went to my room to
read and try to realize the truth
as taught in Science and
Health."
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FINANCIAL
AND MORAL BANKRUPTCY, HEALING
OF
"Six
years ago I was led into
Christian Science after having
spent many years dragging my
weary footsteps through the
quicksands of alcoholism and the
mires of sensualism."
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FINGER,
HEALING OF
SEVERED
"One day, while running, I fell
upon a lawn mower that was in
operation. One of my fingers came
in contact with the blade, thus
severing almost completely about
an inch of it."
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FINGER,
HEALING OF
SEVERED
"My husband was working in a
butcher shop, and one day he ran
his second finger into the
sausage-mill, grinding off the
end of it, except for a piece of
skin on one side."
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FINGERS,
HEALING OF
CRUSHED
"The pain was so intense that I
became almost bewildered and my
first thought was to jump off the
[streetcar] and return
home, but I began to declare the
truth, that 'all is infinite Mind
and its infinite manifestation,
for God is All-in-all' (Science
and Health, p. 168)."
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FOOT
SORE
HEALED
"On
entering camp I asked a sick
berth steward if he would give me
a bandage to keep the dirt from
my heel as it was
chafed."
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FREED
FROM
SUFFERING
"One day a friend, a Christian
Science practitioner, came to see
me and said there was only one
thing which would help me. I
replied that I knew it, but I
meant suicide and she meant
Christian Science."
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