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happy I could hardly contain myself; to material
sense it was wonderful. As I walked I kept saying,
"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," and tried to understand
"the scientific statement of being" by repeating
portions at a time, then pondering over them. I
read the book four times in succession, and every
time I found more and more to aid in the
understanding.
This healing was in October, 1901, with no other
help than Science and Health, and soon I was relieved
of other chronic ailments. In February I was able to
put away eyeglasses, which I had worn ten years and
a half for astigmatism. Oculists told me I would always
have to wear them. A month later my father asked
me to help him, as he was suffering so much from constipation,
dyspepsia, and neuralgia. He had been subsisting
on bran, nearly starving himself until he was most
miserable, and his limbs seemed so cold that they were
kept wrapped in blankets. I felt very humble as he
asked me, and told him I would have a practitioner help
him, as I had never treated any one; but he would not
consent to have any one but myself, and I finally told
him I would try, but that he must not hold Science responsible
if he were not benefited, for my lack of understanding,
and not Science, would be at fault. At my request
he read Science and Health, ate whatever he wanted,
and used no medicine in any form. After two treatments
I received word from him that he was healed
of that bondage of thirty years' standing. In view of
all these signs which followed my acceptance of Christian
Science, I knew it must be true. - R. L. A.,
Chicago, Ill.
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