advised
me to burn all my medicines and to lean unreservedly on the promises of
God. I took her advice; had my book rebound in three volumes, so I could
hold it more easily, and now read it constantly, reading nothing else.
Sometimes I would suffer intensely, then I would get a little better; then
more suffering, and so on, until August, 1891, when all pain left me. I
have had no return of it, and no disagreeable sensations of any kind, and
am perfectly well in all respects.

Surely, if we will but trust our heavenly Father, He is sufficient for us.
I hope some one of, or near, my age, who is afflicted, may read this and
take courage; for I have _demonstrated_ the fact that, by reading Science
and Health, in connection with the Bible, and trying to follow the
teaching therein, one in the autumn of life may be made over new. I am so
thankful to God for my great recovery!

That remark of Sojourner Truth helps me to a better understanding of Life
in God: "God is the great house that holds all His children; we dwell in
Him as the fishes dwell in the seas."--P. T. P.

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Until about one year ago, I had no thought of investigating Christian
Science. Previous to that time it had been presented to me in such a way
that I condemned it as unreasonable and absurd. At that time it was
presented to me in a more reasonable light. I determined to divest myself
of prejudice (as far as was possible) and investigate it, thinking that if
there was anything in it, it was for me as well as others; that I surely
needed it, and if I found no good in it, I could then with some show of
reason condemn it.

I had been reading Science and Health about two weeks, when one morning I
wanted my cane. It had been misplaced; and while looking for it the
thought came to me, If all is Mind, I need no cane. I went out without it,
have not used it at all since, and do not need it as a support; but for a
time I did miss it from my hand. I had used it for years as a support to a
very lame back.

I before went much stooped, because it pained me to straighten up; but
from the time I laid my cane aside I straightened up, free from pain.
Occasionally I have a slight pain in my back, but it is nothing to compare
with what it had been.

In a short time after laying my cane aside, my pipe and tobacco went out
into the street and have not returned. I had smoked for sixty-five years,
and chewed for fifty. I