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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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"A
BETTER AND HAPPIER
EXISTENCE"
"When a boy in the teens I became
very despondent over my prospects
in life, and lost all interest in
everything, becoming somewhat of
a recluse. The despondency grew
from year to year until it
developed into suicidal
melancholia . . ."
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ABNORMAL
GROWTH
HEALED
". . . I stood firm in the
realization that nothing exists
but God and His universe, peopled
with His ideas, all governed and
controlled by His spiritual law,
all as perfect as the Father,
now."
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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
HEALED, EFFECTS OF
AN
"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
"About five years ago I was
indeed at man's extremity, but it
proved to be God's opportunity;
for an understanding of man's
relationship to God came to me
through the reading of the
Christian Science
literature."
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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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BACK
PAIN
HEALED
"I do not know how long I worked,
but for a time I was not
conscious of a material body,
I just knew that man is
spiritual, 'neither in nor of
matter.'"
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BELIEFS
OF OLD AGE
REJECTED
"Not years, but the acceptance of
the belief that mortal
experiences are real is what bows
the form, dims the eye, furrows
the cheek and brow."
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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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HEALING
OF A BURN
"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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A
HEALING OF
BURNS
"Material conditions could not
overthrow the government of
omnipotent Love, and I was
entirely free from
suffering."
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HEALING
OF
BURNS
". . . 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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HEALING
OF
BURNS
"While cooking on the top of the
gas stove, I lighted the oven and
left it for a few minutes. When I
opened the oven door there was a
loud explosion, and I was bathed
in flame."
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HEALING
OF
BURNS
"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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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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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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CHEMICAL
BURNS
OVERCOME
". . . My little dog apparently
drank a solution of caustic
potash. He was found some days
later, and upon examination it
was found that his tongue had
entirely gone, and death seemed
inevitable."
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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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COMPLETE
RESTORATION TO
HEALTH
"I was afflicted with defective
sight and defective hearing from
birth, had worn glasses from
childhood, but even with the aid
of glasses at times it was
difficult for me to see to
read."
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"COMPLETELY
HEALED"
"I do not know why I should have
been opposed to Christian
Science, as, to my knowledge, I
had never heard the two words put
together before; but I was
immediately prejudiced, and said,
'Oh, that must be faith cure, and
I could not have any faith.' My
friend replied, 'No, it is not
faith cure: for I was healed, and
I did not have any
faith.'"
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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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DEPRESSION
HEALED
"With deepest gratitude I offer
my testimony of Christian Science
healing, hoping that it may lend
encouragement to
another."
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DEPRESSION
AND PARANOIA
HEALED
"The faithful doctor, who very
earnestly and honestly tried to
cure me, finally said that
another month would find me in an
insane asylum, for every known
remedy had been
exhausted."
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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
GUIDANCE AND
PROTECTION
"Just a little over a year ago I
was able to demonstrate the
guiding and guarding power of
divine Mind in the third battle
of Ypres."
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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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DIVINE
PROTECTION AND
HEALING
"I began the study of Christian
Science nine years ago after
attending church a few times with
a sister who was
interested."
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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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DRINKING
AND SMOKING HABITS
HEALED
". . . From my youth, I had been
a heavy drinker and smoker. I
used to boast that I would never
be a teetotaler; and I never went
near one if I could avoid
it."
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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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EYES
STRAIGHTENED
".
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treatment, and asked a loving
practitioner if she thought my
child's eyes could be
straightened by Christian
Science."
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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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HEALING
OF
FATIGUE
"Before this great light came to
me, life was simply one heavy
burden and weariness laid on top
of another."
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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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"FILLED
WITH
GRATITUDE"
"To make the story short, I
underwent six operations, with
the result that I had to give up
my position and go home to
Denmark with an almost stiff and
useless arm."
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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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FLESH
WOUND
HEALED
"One day my little son fell on a
foot scraper which had a heavy
spring on it, and the spring ran
into his mouth between the gums
and cheek."
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FLU
HEALED
"The doctors and nurses said
there was no hope, and that I
would grow weaker until the end.
My sister, who had been in
Science for several years, came
in and said, 'Well, if you are
through, I'll see what Christian
Science can do for
her.'"
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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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FOREIGN
MATERIAL REMOVED FROM
EYE
"About
a year ago, while at my work, a
soft spot in the emery wheel with
which I was working flew off so
quickly and unexpectedly that a
great deal of the emery went into
my eye, making it impossible for
me to see."
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FREED
FROM
DISCORDS
". . . I know that only by living
this truth and letting my light
shine can I hope to prove the
deep gratitude I
feel."
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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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FROM
DRUGS TO CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
"In advertising I described
diseases and their symptoms
according to the prevailing
methods of medical practice, . .
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observe that in every town and
city where this advertising was
introduced, an epidemic of
diseases followed."
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