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From childhood, there was nothing I desired or loved...
From childhood, there was nothing I desired or loved more than honesty, and this desire followed me through a long struggle with poverty. The test of my desire for honesty came. A nice country home and seemingly all we possessed was swept away through the destruction of crops, hog cholera, bail money, and the dishonesty of a fellow-man. This loss was nothing compared to the debts that were added to the burden. I was charged with dishonesty by the creditors, who would come to my home and declare I had money hid when I had none.
Science and Health was then handed to me. I was a church member, and my sense of honesty to my fellow-man caused me to carry Science literature to the pastor of said church. For two years I did so, hoping to have him either acknowledge the good or else condemn the evil in it. He did neither, but instead denounced it from the pulpit. This so wounded me that I could no longer attend church. Ambitious as my husband was, every undertaking was a defeat. My great aim was to give my children as good an education as our city afforded. In order to accomplish this, I kept boarders, sewed, and did any kind of work I could, but one thing followed another, until we were reduced to extreme poverty.

January 14, 1905 issue
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Religion and Joyousness
CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK.
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The Gospel of Giving
ELIZABETH EARL JONES.
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Annual Meeting of the Church in Concord
Irving C. Tomlinson, Josiah E. Dwight, J. Wesley Plummer
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Earnest Givers
William King
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The Lectures
with contributions from Judge Clearwater, Lizzie L. Filbert, R. J. Wilson
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Christian Scientists are not "skeptical as to the existence...
Albert E. Miller
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Christian Scientists, instead of regarding man as an object...
Richard P. Verrall
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Christian Science does not deal with the imagination...
W. S. Morris, Jr.
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Our critic finds fault with the definition of God as given...
James D. Sherwood
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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Our Leader's Letter to the Concord Church
Mary Baker Eddy
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A Cry in the Wilderness
John B. Willis
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Letters to our Leader
with contributions from H. M. Ferris, Harry E. Sims, Barbara M. Prince, Clarence Arnold
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As my thoughts go back to the time when I believed I...
Carrie Kruses
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If I could express even a small part of my gratitude and...
Theodora Beckwith
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It is more than ten years now since I first learned of...
Fannie L. Sellew
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From childhood, there was nothing I desired or loved...
Magdalena Howser with contributions from Louis H. Jennings
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I first heard, of Christian Science ten or twelve years...
Harry Vance Swope
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Paul said, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your...
Carrie A. McLeod
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About six years ago I was healed of a severe case of...
J. E. Heronemus
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Our Trust
MRS. H. RUTHVEN MC DONALD.
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Notices
with contributions from Stephen A. Chase