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Christian Science came into my life about a year ago, and...
Christian Science came into my life about a year ago, and since then has wrought such a radical change in me that I can truly affirm that it surely heals, if sincerely and diligently followed. Reared by Christian parents, I went to Sunday school like other children, but at length rebelled against the incongruity of the teachings expounded. I recall asking my teacher why the miracles of the Bible did not occur today, but there was no satisfactory answer. I therefore dropped from church and religious life, and my parents had nothing better to offer me. With this religious vacuum, if I may use the phrase, I turned my energy to education, to the natural sciences, and on them started to build my structure of life. I studied and became proficient in several branches, and was content with my store of self-gained knowledge, little realizing that I was building without knowing the basic Principle, the very foundation of all else,—that of Truth, or good.
So this Babel-tower grew, then ceased to grow, then tottered. My life structure was nearly wrecked by breakdown, by mental strain, nervous exhaustion, and a gloom that seemed unfathomable. Constantly losing ground, I groped in the darkness for a something on which to build aright, for a relief from the oppression which was now manifest mentally, morally, physically; but I used the wrong weapons, for I tried will-power, dogged determination, and sharp sarcasm. I made no progress. On the surface, as if by mockery, I appeared a happy man.

October 23, 1915 issue
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Modesty an Essential Virtue
ALFRED FARLOW
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"The son of David"
ETTA M. GILBREATH
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"Having done all, to stand"
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH
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Mountain Climbing
BERTHA V. ZEREGA
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Righteous Prayer
WILLIAM BEARD
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Compelling Love
BEATRICE CLAYTON
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Seeing that the recent lecture at Salem by a Swedenborgian...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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The Baptist Standard, published at Dallas, Texas,...
Brigman C. Odom
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During an evangelistic service a few weeks ago a speaker...
Mrs. David Y. Stokes
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The Yorkshire Gazette contained some references...
Fred. R. Rhodes
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When Peter questioned John's ability to work out his...
Robert S. Ross
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Truth that Makes Free
CHARLES C. SANDELIN
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Medical Encroachment
Archibald McLellan
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The Heart of Things
John B. Willis
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"Christ in you"
Annie M. Knott
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The Lectures
with contributions from H. Cornell Wilson
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In April, 1906, the greatest trouble and the greatest...
C. Kate Beacom
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"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and...
Effa L. Murphy with contributions from Anne McFadden
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"And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall...
Mabel Morrison Stopher
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Deep gratitude impels me to testify to all that I and mine...
Friederike Abeld
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It is with a heart thankful to God for Christian Science...
Erdena Gschwind with contributions from Wordsworth
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from Harry Emerson Fosdick, Gaston W. Duncan, J. Frank Thompson