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Count Your Blessings
WHENEVER a certain student of Christian Science finds the way a bit difficult, and problems do not seem to be solved so quickly as they should be, he harks back to the day when he was healed of very severe inflammatory rheumatism; for that was the day he caught the first real glimpse of God. The circumstance was as follows: Practically over night the argument of this false belief appeared to bind him in iron chains, so that on the following morning he could scarcely move limb or muscle. This student was occupying at the time a rather active and responsible position in a large business establishment, and his first thought was that he should be at his desk, that it was the one period of the year when he could least be spared from his post. And so, being new and uninstructed in Christian Science, he called for a practitioner to set him on his feet at once.
For four days absent treatment was given, but no appreciable results seemed apparent. On the fifth day she asked the patient this startling question: "Have you ever counted your blessings?" His reply was in the negative, coupled with the declaration that his chief concern was to be cured so that he could return to business. As a result of her patient insistence, however, that he devote the afternoon to counting up and giving thought to everything for which he should be grateful, he agreed to accept the prescription.
August 14, 1920 issue
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Arise
THEOPHILUS ALLEN
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"Crumbs of comfort"
MARY E. ARMSTRONG
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Distinguished Service Order
FLORENCE BOSWELL
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Right Knowing
HELEN T. BELFORD
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Giving Testimony
BLANCHE M. WETZELL
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Count Your Blessings
ALBERT E. BARNARD
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Our Isaac
MABEL GORDON-INGLIS
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A dispatch of recent date announces the verdict of a New Jersey...
William E. Brown
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During the course of his sermon, as reported in a recent...
Harry K. Filler
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The brief editorial entitled "Curtailing Religious Freedom"...
Samuel J. Macdonald
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Fallen Man
Frederick Dixon
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Language That Heals
Gustavus S. Paine
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ella D. Schindler, Albert W. Hall, Bertha L. Babcock, Paul Thiele, J. M. Bach, Frank Briggs, Israel Pickens, Robert A. Silliman, F. E. Gerlach, Rendle Carl Leathem, E. R. B. Allardice, W. G. Koch, F. Elmo Robinson, James C. Finney
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Love and gratitude for Christian Science have led me...
Laura R. Donges
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With a heart full of thankfulness for many blessings I...
Beryl Rosa Ware
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Gratitude for Christian Science and for our dear Leader,...
Harriette S. Frost
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About five years before learning of Christian Science I...
Harold L. Hilton
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Many blessings have come into my life through the understanding...
Margaret Tweedale
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Hoping that this testimony may be a help to some one...
Adde Ashbrook Sexton
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"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there...
Elizabeth McKnight
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For a long time I have wanted to give my testimony of...
Stella Whiting
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The first Sunday in July, 1919, proved to be an eventful...
Frank E. Huckle
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I wish to give thanks for Christian Science
Rosina E. Hargreaves
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Richard C. Cabot, Paul S. Leinbach