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I had witnessed many healings through Christian Science...
I had witnessed many healings through Christian Science in a family of relatives, and had seen its regenerating influence and "signs following" for years before I became interested enough to seek it for myself. When this time came I asked for help and received relief from pain very quickly. I then commenced the study of the textbook and read it over and over many times before the light of understanding came. However, I felt from the start that it was what I needed, and many blessings came through the study and application of it. Many valuable lessons were learned, much material thinking had to be dropped, and more spiritual ideas accepted.
In due time I was privileged to join The Mother Church in Boston, and a branch church, and also to enjoy class instruction. Teaching in Sunday school afforded me much joy and spiritual growth.
One healing in particular brought untold joy and freedom to me, for which I am most grateful. For many years I had suffered from fallen arches, and had accepted the verdict that I had to wear clumsy, heavy arch supports. I was miserable without them and never comfortable with them. Then, under the stress of circumstances, I was placed in surroundings where it seemed necessary to exercise much love and patience, and it was necessary to put into practice many admonitions of the master Christian in his beautiful Sermon on the Mount. I had read and admired these teachings, and thought that I had put them into practice for years; but this case needed a constant reversal of suggestions of the absence of love. The words from our revered Leader's poem "Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, pp. 4, 5) constantly came to me:
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November 10, 1934 issue
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"Children, have ye any meat?"
ALLAN CARSON
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Abundant Life
NATALIE G. FORCE
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Authority
HERBERT L. FRANK
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Spiritual Conversion
MARGARETE KEHR
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Church Forever Unfolding
MILDRED SPRING CASE
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Understanding
RUSSELL G. WOODARD
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Gratitude
GISEL A. BAUMGART
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In these strange, difficult days of the world's unrest, is it...
by Mrs. Louise Knight Wheatley Cook
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The Inexhaustible Source of Health and Strength
DUNCAN SINCLAIR
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The War That Ends Wars
W. STUART BOOTH
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A Letter to the Directors
with contributions from COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION OF FORTY-EIGHT DISTRICTS IN ENGLAND CANADA
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The Lectures
with contributions from Frances K. Myer, Bernice Gillespie, Lily Gandy
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I have every reason to give thanks for the teachings of...
MARTHA MUMPRECHT
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Christian Science came into my home when I was a very...
GEORGE W. HINCHSLIFF
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Even after I had seen and experienced some remarkable...
BLANCHE M. PALMER
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The study of Christian Science and the work of faithful...
JOHN A. GUSTUS, JR.
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For the past seven or eight years I have enjoyed the...
S. KATHERINE BARRUS
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I wish to express my sincere gratitude that God knew my...
HERBERT H. PAGE
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The Awakening
BEATRICE CLAYTON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Paul F. Huebner, James R. Angell, Archbishop of Canterbury