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The Prayer that Heals
In this seeming wilderness of fear and doubt and despair, there is a longing for an intelligent understanding of prayer which would bring us into closer touch with God and give us a God who is Love, and as Mrs. Eddy tells us (Science and Health, p. 472) one who is to be "understood, adored, and demonstrated." In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we find in the chapter on Prayer the very essence of true spirituality, and a careful study of this chapter alone will heal disease and eliminate suffering.
The writer was at one time a member of a so-called orthodox church, trying to serve an unknown, personal God, and was at the same time living in constant dread of the elements and in fear of death as inevitable. One by one loved ones were taken from the fold, though fervent prayer had been offered for their restoration. We were told that it was God's will; that they were taken for a wise purpose and for our good. Inwardly I rebelled at these sayings, and finally lost all confidence in prayer as a means of overcoming disease and suffering.

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