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CURING BETTER THAN ENDURING
For eight years I was a great sufferer from weak
lungs and after being treated by ten different physicians,
in the States of Illinois, Missouri, and Colorado,
I was told there was no hope of my recovery
from what they pronounced tuberculosis, which was
hereditary, my father having been afflicted with it. I
was greatly emaciated and hardly able to be about.
My general condition was aggravated by what the doctors
said was paralysis of the bowels. Three physicians
so diagnosed it at different times, and assured
my husband that I could never get more than temporary
relief. This indeed I found difficult to obtain,
in spite of my almost frantic efforts. At times I was
nearly insane from suffering, and after eight years of
doctoring I found myself steadily growing worse. For
four years I did not have a normal action of the bowels,
and it was only by extreme effort and by resort to powerful
drugs or mechanical means, with resultant suffering,
that any action whatever could be brought about.
I had heard nothing of the curative power of Christian
Science, and only to oblige a friend I went one
night, about three years ago, to one of their mid-week
testimonial meetings, in Boulder, Colorado. I was much
impressed by what I heard there, and determined at once
to investigate this strange religion, in the hope that it
might have something good for me. I bought the textbook,
Science and Health, and from the first I found
myself growing stronger and better, both physically and
mentally, as I acquired a better understanding and endeavored
to put into practice what I learned. In one week
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