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`` I made my first demonstration with the help of the Bible and ` Science and Health , ' and with their help I will make this one . '' It was nearly midnight before he stopped his work . He was not afraid of his mother calling in to see him , as she had been unable to leave her bed for several days , his father had been compelled to hire a servant to do the housework , and she was coming in the morning . The Rev. Williams did not retire until long after midnight ; he also had the same evil to fight , for he had admitted that he was prejudiced and so his prejudice seemed real to him . When Walter had first quitted the room , the pastor thought of calling him back and giving him a severe reprimand ; but as he thought of all the misery the boy had been through in these many years of sickness , he decided not to do it . He then began to think of all that Walter had said throughout the Bible lessons and his thoughts were as follows `` I can not help admitting that a great many things he said seemed nonsense at first , but after a careful research of the Bible I found them fully substantiated and to be the real meaning ; besides some of his explanations are very plain and prove his assertions . To think he got his information out of the Christian Science text book ` Science and Health , ' with key to the scriptures , which nearly every clergyman and professors of all kinds have been ridiculing for the last thirty-five or forty years !