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Ten years ago I was hospitalized for six months for what the...
Ten years ago I was hospitalized for six months for what the doctors diagnosed as subarachnoid hemorrhage (hemorrhage somewhere in the head). They decided not to operate upon me, since the operation was too delicate. Instead, I was given a prescription for sedatives, which I was to take daily for the rest of my life to relieve me of pains. I was advised not to exert myself physically. Then my medical category was reduced to lowest, "C permanent." As I was in government service, it would have affected my promotion and career. One day when I went to the specialist for my complaints, he told me that I would have to put up with the pains, meaning thereby that he could do nothing for me.
While in this desperate state, I received a copy of the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, from one of my uncles. I started reading it with doubts clouding my mind. How could one get cured by just reading a book?
I read the book with so little interest that during the next six months I had read only half of it. One day I said, "Let me trust this book for today. I will not take any medicine today." I felt no pains that day. That was more than eight years ago, and I have not touched any medicine since then. The book made me a healthy man. My medical category was upgraded to highest, "Al," by a board of physicians, who carried out detailed tests on me.
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June 17, 1972 issue
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Challenging False Authority
P. RHODES BOWEN
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No Law of Heredity
JEANNE ROE PRICE
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Revolt Against Custom
GORDON THOMAS SPARE
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Man Separated from God? Never!
DOROTHY ELWELL McCONNEHEA
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A Sack of Candy
SHANNON ELIZABETH McKEAN
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Free-flowing Traffic of ideas
ESME A. GOLLSCHEWSKY
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What Can We Do for Our Children?
BETH NEWTON SAVAGE
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COLITA
JOSÉ OSCAR NIEVAS
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How Reading a Book Heals
Naomi Price
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"Work out your own salvation"
Alan A. Aylwin
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Ten years ago I was hospitalized for six months for what the...
Satinder Kumar Kapoor
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About forty-five years ago I found myself in a state of great...
Daisy D. Nigman with contributions from Earl T. Nigman
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I commenced the study of Christian Science nearly fifty years ago
Gladys McCleery with contributions from Lynne P. Goble