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In July, 1918, I bought my first copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
In July, 1918, I bought my first copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Before this, through many years of tribulation, worry, sickness, and pain, God had been preparing me to lay down my self-willed belief in mortality, and to accept the true idea of spiritual existence, as revealed in Christian Science. I had cried out to an unknown God for guidance in a particular problem, and received an answer, unwelcome to my sense, but which showed me conclusively that there is a God who answers prayer. Then came the search for light; and I was led by devious ways to the place where Christian Science was presented and accepted. After this, my progress was rapid. Nervous trouble of over fifteen years' standing, with its many accompaniments, was completely overcome long before the textbook was read. Material remedies were dropped. I was able to resume a normal life, a state of activity unknown for years.
On page 66 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes, "Trials are proofs of God's care;" and I can with heartfelt gratitude look back on the years when trials so beset me to drive me into the land of peace, which I found. After the first healing, I came into touch with the small band of workers in this field, and had the great privilege, about fifteen months later, of helping to organize and work for our society. During these years I have had many healings, including fallen insteps, varicose veins in my feet, a painful form of skin disease which recurred many times, but has now ceased to trouble me, the tendency to severe attacks of influenza, ptomaine poisoning, and other ills. Other members of my family have had healings almost too numerous to mention, two of which were a stricture and quinsy, instantaneously destroyed.
Financial limitation has been overcome; and I am gradually eliminating serious faults of character, such as an irritable temper and a habit of personal criticism. But the two things that are most wonderful and glorious to me are, first, the new outlook on life, the sense of security and peace, where before all seemed doubt, darkness, and distress; and secondly, the priceless privilege of being able to reflect the healing Truth and Love which destroy the ills and woes of our neighbors, as well as of our faithful friends in the animal kingdom. All along the way I have been so helped, cheered, and guided by divine Love that my life has been one long joy, with only short spaces when discouragement seemed to creep in; and I have proved daily and hourly that divine Love does meet every human need. So far, only one member of my family has accepted Christian Science, but all have had proof of its efficacy for me, and some for themselves. Worldly things have quietly and naturally dropped away as more serious work claimed my time; and I know that the way is opening to still higher duties and joys.
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April 14, 1923 issue
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Consecration
LUCY H. REYNOLDS
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Genuine Success
REUBEN POGSON
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"A psalm of gratitude"
GEORGENE L. MILLER
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"His only begotten Son"
RUTH C. FORTSON
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Obedience to Love
CATHERINE VERRALL
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The Golden Rule
WILSON M. SOUTHAM
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The ministry of Jesus was practical
Margaret H. Anderson, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa,
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That faith has a great influence upon healing is undoubtedly...
Van Buren Perry, Committee on Publication for the State of South Dakota,
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Based solely on the Bible; honoring God to the full extent...
Robert G. Steel, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
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The verified testimonies of healing which appear in the...
Mrs. Caroline Getty, Committee on Publication for France,
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Bible history has shown that rites and ceremonies established...
Mrs. Hettie Williams, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from Emma F. Harnsberger, Jennie B. Stevens
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"A new heaven and a new earth"
Albert F. Gilmore
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Our Defense
Duncan Sinclair
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Resisting Evil
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from A. Hervey-Bathurst, Edith J. Guthrie, George M. Alexander, Hermann S. Hering
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In May, 1913, when our daughter was two years old, she...
Florence J. Green
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It was in 1901 that I learned to know, beyond possibility...
Eva S. W. Williams
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As one who has been greatly benefited by Christian Science,...
Irwin B. Tietze with contributions from Ruth M. Tietze
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About seven years ago I turned to Christian Science for...
Elizabeth Hatherly
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In July, 1918, I bought my first copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Jessie H. Black
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As a proof of the protecting power of God's care, I wish...
Paul V. Sullivan
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I have been interested in Christian Science for about six...
Samuel W. Younker
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In 1918, one of my little daughters was ill with a violent...
Arno Wegeleben with contributions from Paula Wegeleben
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Forgetting Self
GEO. SAMUEL PORTER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Charles Brown, Canon Bertal Heeney