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Paul says, "Be ye transformed by...

From the September 1923 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Paul says, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." Through studying "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I am becoming a new creature, as old thoughts pass away, leaving me free to do greater work for God and my fellow-men; and this is bringing me more peace, joy, health, and happiness than ever before.

When I first read that wonderful book in 1912, I knew it contained what I had been seeking all my life. I read it continually for about three weeks, and then returned it to the one who had so kindly lent it. Two months later, I seemingly broke down completely, and had to be carried home. On reaching home I knew if I could have that little book I should soon be all right; but as there were objections, I stopped talking about it. I continued to grow worse, until I was sent to a sanitarium in an advanced stage of tuberculosis. The thought that God is Life stayed with me constantly. I would read the Bible, and try to remember what I had read in Science and Health. How I longed for that book, which indeed leads into all truth! But it was six years later, after having passed through many seeming ills, before I broke the bonds which were holding me from the truth; and oh, the great joy and peace I felt the first Sunday morning on entering the Christian Science church!

During the influenza epidemic I was instantaneously healed of a very severe attack. It was during this illness that I gave up the doctor and the nurse; and when the thought came to me to know and prove God, I immediately arose, dressed, and went out on the porch—completely healed. Two months later, when alone, I was taken with a hemorrhage. The thought came: "Fear hath torment; " but God is Love, and "perfect love casteth out fear." I realized I had been in torment for the past eight or ten years from a consuming fear, and that there was nothing to fear, for God is Love and ever present. Since He is Life, there is no life in blood. In two days I was up, and have not spent an hour in bed from sickness since, a period of over three years. The previous winter I had spent three months and a half in bed from similar attacks. By reading this book the second time, I was healed in about three weeks of tuberculosis, stomach disorder, and abdominal trouble, for which I had undergone an operation but received no help; in fact I was healed of every ill that I then had.

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