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I want to say how grateful I am for Christian Science,...
I want to say how grateful I am for Christian Science, and to tell a little of what it has done for me, in the hope that my experience may help others. When I first heard of this teaching I was mentally and physically a wreck, having suffered from nervousness since childhood. My condition steadily became worse, each phase appearing more difficult to combat, until I wondered at last what would happen to me. My family and friends surrounded me with love and every known remedy, but none of these things availed me in the slightest; indeed, they only added to the blackness of despair, for I came at length to the end of all material help and was worse than in the beginning.
At this, the darkest hour, the coming of Christian Science was indeed the dawn. A friend took me to a Wednesday evening testimony meeting and gave me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy to read before the service commenced. I opened it at the first chapter, entitled "Prayer," and when I came to the words, "Thoughts unspoken are not unknown to the divine Mind" (p. 1), I experienced the healing touch of absolute Truth. All fear left me, and I was instantaneously healed of a physical trouble from which I had suffered all my life. The service indeed proved the vision of the mountain top, and since that time I have never for one instant doubted the truth of the Christ Science, although owing to so many years of wrong thinking a dark time followed. The remembrance of that vision enabled me to hold on.
I have had many physical healings. An acute attack of ptomaine poisoning was overcome within half an hour, a severe condition of pyorrhea was healed in two treatments, and bad colds and other ailments have quickly yielded to the truth. One is naturally grateful for the physical healing, but far more beautiful is the change in character which slowly, perhaps, but very surely goes on if we faithfully do the best we can, seeking first "the kingdom of God, and his righteousness." I am deeply thankful to God for this wonderful truth which is leading me out of bondage into the "glorious liberty of the children of God," and am grateful to Mrs. Eddy, through whose purity, selflessness, and faithfulness the understanding of the Christ, Truth, has been revealed to this age.
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March 23, 1918 issue
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"Are you faithful? Do you love?"*
JOHN RANDALL DUNN
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Martha Who Served
ANNIE TREACHER HALL
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Principle Precedes Method
JOHN PORTER HENRY
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Active Service
LIEUT. COL. ROBERT E. KEY
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The Prayer that Heals
HENRY J. SNYDER
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"An instrument of ten strings"
MARY I. MESECHRE
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Motherhood
GRACE L. WHITING
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In a letter signed "L. B.," published in a recent issue,...
Albert F. Gilmore
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Christ Jesus not only preached that the kingdom of...
W. Stuart Booth
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In a recent attack made on Christian Science from the...
Rachel A. Banister
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Why it should be necessary to criticize the honest and...
Robert G. Steel
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In regard to the statement that churches in New York...
H. R. Colborne
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"A great freedom for the race"*
William P. McKenzie
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The Second Commandment
Annie M. Knott
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Planting the Seed
William D. McCrackan
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
with contributions from Charles E. Jarvis
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The Lectures
with contributions from A. C. Wilks, H. E. Saunders, L. G. Reynolds
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With reverence and humble thanks to God, as well as...
James C. Cassell
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I feel it a duty as well as a privilege to send my testimony,...
Ray Jerome with contributions from Etta Bliesner
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I am indeed thankful to God that I was led to investigate...
Myrtle March Mellon
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I shall always be thankful for the knowledge I have...
Mary E. Harpold
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When I came into Christian Science, I was teaching...
Vonia Ray Johnson
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When I came into Christian Science I read the testimonies...
Elise Horstman
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I want to say how grateful I am for Christian Science,...
Eva C. Elmslie
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It is with great pleasure that I express my heartfelt...
Mary L. Atwood
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From the Press
with contributions from Washington Gladden, Henry Watterson
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Notices
with contributions from The Christian Science Publishing Society