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Prior to the year 1930, I was...
Prior to the year 1930, I was leading a life filled with dissipation. I was drinking and smoking excessively and was very domineering in my attitude toward my family, business associates, and friends. A friend who was my drinking companion had a physical breakdown and turned to Christian Science for help. He was healed.
Because I continued to live as I had been living and because he was studying Christian Science, we had no more in common; so we discontinued our companionship. Finally I too had a serious breakdown. It happened one night some twenty-seven years ago. There was a policeman who patrolled the area in which my place of business was located. I asked him to take me to my former friend's place of business, which was in the neighborhood. I told my friend I wanted what he had, and I asked for his help. He spoke some comforting truths to me and told me to come to see him the next morning, and he would take me to see a Christian Science practitioner.
After a period of trial and tribulation, I was healed with the help of the practitioner of drinking, smoking, and other forms of dissipation. I was also healed of the domineering manner. My home life has been adjusted; I have become a member of The Mother Church and a branch church, and recently I have had class instruction in Christian Science.
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December 20, 1958 issue
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CHRISTMAS AND PEACE ON EARTH
MAX DUNAWAY
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TRUE REFLECTION
ALICE WILT STRAUSS
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"THOU ART MINE"
NADINE R. EWING
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"BUT GOD IS HOLDING MY HAND"
MABEL O. STEWART
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GIFTS THAT HEAL AND BLESS
HARRY ABELES
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A CHRISTMAS WISH
Marion Alice Bowers
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"A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH"
VERONICA VIOLET PARK
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FREEDOM AND PEACE
ALEXANDRA B. CRICHTON
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A MATCHLESS OPPORTUNITY
HAZEL R. HARRISON
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THE DEMONSTRATION OF MAN'S DIVINE SONSHIP
Harold Molter
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MAN AS EMANATION
Helen Wood Bauman
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RADIO PROGRAM No. 274 - Depending on Divine Law Brings Protection
with contributions from John Llewellyn
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Prior to the year 1930, I was...
David Eichenbaum
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I desire to express gratitude for...
Ellen Rowlatt Millar
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I have many reasons for being...
Ellen E. Nelson
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During the period that our older son...
June Knapp Angell
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For over forty-one years I have...
Dorothy Baldwin Garretson
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Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings"...
Florence E. Urquhart
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I am grateful for the many healings...
Marjorie Wilson Tellison
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Christian Science has been a...
John A. Royse
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Signs of the Times
Roy L. Smith