In 1866 while residing in SwampscottAs Written:Swpscott MassachusettsAs Written:Mass. Mrs Eddy met with a severe accident that the physicians As Written: physicins pronounced fatal She was taken to her home on a mattressAs Written:mattrass & borne to her bed On [*]Archival Note: The following text has a vertical line through it. SundayAs Written:Suday morningAs Written:moring before services the Congregationalists clergyman whose church she attended to pray and to part [*]Archival Note: End vertical line. with her and would. [*]Archival Note: The following text has diagonal lines through it. When he called she met him in the lower hall at the outer door [*]Archival Note: End diagonal lines. After the Church service on learning that she was still living he called again and she met him at the outsideAs Written:ouside door in the lower hall He stood aghast at her presence. She tripped upstairsAs Written:up stairs with her usual alertness & the clergyman asked to know what it all meant. She replied "After you left me I asked for the Bible The shadows of the dark valleyPs 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. gathered around me but I could barely see enough to trace a scriptural As Written: scriptual passage which I regret to say I can'tAs Written:cant recall but it changed the scene. The midway between life & death was illumed As Written: illumid the Christ seemed As Written: seemd to have come to the fleshJohn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. & quickened As Written: quicknd me into newness of lifeRom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. strength & vigor that I never As Written: nevr before knew I rose & walked into an adjacentAs Written:adjacnt room My friends were frightened As Written: frightnd at beholding As Written: beholdng me They thought I was dying when they left the room & begged to be allowed to remain As Written: remin with me.
From that hour dawned upon my consciousness the vision of Christian ScienceAs Written:Chrstn Scinc