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From childhood I was not what would be called healthy
From childhood I was not what would be called healthy. I lived an indoor life for the most part, devoting my time to study and music, the latter becoming my life work. I was a very conscientious student, and one of my teachers asked a friend of long acquaintance to tell me to be careful, for he feared a breakdown. Some years afterwards a breakdown occurred, and after that I was never so well as before. Several years later I had another nervous collapse, the worst attack I had ever passed through, and I felt death coming. I requested the doctor to telephone for my sister, who for a number of years had been a faithful student of Christian Science, and when she came I inquired if she thought her religion would help me and asked her to send for a practitioner. A very short time after the practitioner came and gave me treatment I was able to dress. She treated me the best part of a week, but possibly fear caused me to return to the use of a tonic, and I asked that the treatment be discontinued. Not long afterwards, however, seeing that medicine was doing me no good, I again turned to Christian Science and for a few years tried to put into practice what I learned from the study of Science and Health.
Then in 1912 my physical and mental condition began to grow worse, although for about a year before that I was healthier and happier than I had been for many years. For a long time I was under Christian Science treatment daily. In November of that year my mother passed on, and after this great loss I became a physical and mental wreck; for we had been inseparable, as I had been left fatherless when only five years old. I could not be kept at home, so in January was taken to a hospital. My mental condition was terrible. I felt I had no God, not a friend in the whole world, although my family were devoted to me. I also had the terrible delusion that I had caused all the sorrow and sin and sickness there had ever been. Is it any wonder that instead of looking like a young woman I looked like an old one? But even that has been overcome through Christian Science. I was stooped, and my sisters thought I would never become erect again, but such was not the case.
Christian Science treatment was started for me about two months after I was taken to the hospital and continued until the healing was complete. Mrs. Eddy speaks especially of gratitude, and it appears to me since, that as I expressed gratitude the understanding came. One day I was sitting as usual in my listless way looking from the window, not caring for anything, when suddenly a great desire came over me to see the birds, the trees, the heavens, and I felt the peace, love, and joy that God alone gives, coming into my heart. Shortly afterwards I felt so badly again that I had to lie down awhile, but the next day the same great spiritual uplift came, and my heart was filled to overflowing with love for my Father-Mother God and for everybody on earth. My improvement was great from that time. I wanted a Bible and asked for one and the twenty-seventh psalm became my greatest comfort. Soon I asked for my Science and Health and was reading as in former years. Then early one morning I awoke filled with happiness. I felt so well and happy that I wanted to tell some one, so quickly went to the night nurse, and as I was telling her how I felt I realized that I was healed.
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July 19, 1919 issue
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God First
KATE W. BUCK
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The Mandate of Mind
JOSEPH E. BADGER
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No Opposition to Truth
JEANIE F. GIBB
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Mount of Gilead
LOUISE ROBERTS
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"Making wise the simple"
HUGH STUART CAMPBELL
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A Just Peace
AGNES CHALMERS
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In order to understand the true meaning of the Bible it...
Robert G. Steel
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A clergyman's high estimate of material methods in combating...
Lewis L. Harney
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If a person having no knowledge of the rules of mathematics...
W. Stuart Booth
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Christ, our Life
William P. McKenzie
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Work
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from W. H. Suart, Robert Keller, Cassius M. Caughey, Jean Ramsey, Sigge Cronstedt, J. M. Thomas, H. O. McCurry, C. M. Priddy, Heloise H. Schmidt, William Ross, Arthur L. Slater, Lida Hall Munro, Sara K. Worcester, Wentworth Byron Winslow
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Little did I think when first I read the opening words of...
Walter H. Murray
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From childhood I was not what would be called healthy
Nellie V. Gressley
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My first healing in Christian Science was instantaneous,...
Elizabeth Ambrose Thomson
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I am very grateful for the privilege of recounting some...
Emma E. Hawkins
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"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed;...
Frances McG. Anderson
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In writing this testimony of my healing in Christian Science,...
Ralph W. Coffin
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It is about five years and a half since I first heard of...
Elizabeth Hodgson
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I am very grateful to God for this beautiful truth revealed...
Clara T. Snowden
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My attention was called to Christian Science by a friend...
Jennie M. Burns with contributions from William C. Burns
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Testimonies published in the Sentinel and the Journal...
Morgan Parsons
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Through the loss of the companionship of a loved one I...
Helen Long Grasselli
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from T. Rhondda Williams, Edwin W. Bishop