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As with so many others, Christian Science was my last...
As with so many others, Christian Science was my last recourse, when it should have been my first. I was a constant sufferer from vertigo in a severe form, and I made the usual round of allopath, osteopath, and chiropractor, but continued to get worse, finally resigning all hope of recovery.
Just at the time of my greatest despondency, in the spring of 1919, a friend lent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, stating that several members of her family had been greatly helped by reading it. I gladly and eagerly commenced at once to study the book; and almost immediately a feeling of hopefulness overcame the despondency previously prevailing. The conviction was forced on me that Mrs. Eddy was a messenger of Truth, with a divine message of comfort and cheer for discouraged humanity. The vertigo gradually gave way before the scientific treatment of a kind and sympathetic practitioner, and finally disappeared altogether, as darkness before light. During the same period I was healed of lesser, but annoying troubles,—of constipation, rupture, and the craving for tobacco. After indulging in the use of the weed for forty years, I completely lost all desire for it. I have taken no medicine, and worn no support now for three years, and have felt no need for them.
If my physical improvement has been a source of great comfort to me, much more so my spiritual gain. I had been a professing Christian for thirty-five years before identifying myself with the Church of Christ, Scientist; but I have now found that mere belief and profession do not bring the happiness and comfort realized by practice and demonstration. Humility and gratitude should be the two leading virtues of the genuine Christian Scientist. By that standard the true Christian Scientist is judged. "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name."
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October 6, 1923 issue
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Obedience and Power
HENRY H. LINDSEY
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Law
WILLIAM G. BIEDERMAN
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Promise
CHRISTINE H. BEALS
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Belief or Understanding
LOUISE SATTERTHWAITE
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"Who did sin?"
LILIAN S. MORRISON
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The Free Gift
DELIA SHEARER FOGG
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"Stretch forth thine hand"
VIOLA I. WELLS
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Christian Science considers the suffering of this world to...
Marie C. Hartman, Committee on Publication for Holland,
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All who are familiar with the teachings of Christian Science...
Louis E. Scholl, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington,
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The Christian Scientist's concept of God agrees perfectly...
Augustus Long, Committee on Publication for the State of Nevada,
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In Christian Science, matter, mortal error, and evil are...
Miss Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire, England,
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There can be found nowhere in Mrs. Eddy's writings unkind...
W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,
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The Bible tells us that the "word of God is quick, and...
Harry L. Rhodes, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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Had Christianity since Jesus' time fulfilled his law of...
Fred B. Kerrick, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from H. T. Sandlin, Peter Medvedeff, S. Litvinoff, Engineer
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"My brother's keeper"
Albert F. Gilmore
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"Condemn not"
Ella W. Hoag
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The Way Out of Suffering
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Catharine D. Lewis, Robert Castello
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I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Catherine S. Ough
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About two and a half years ago I was startled by an...
Frank W. Jordan
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A dear relative was healed instantaneously through...
Muriel Nelson
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Thirteen years ago I was a sufferer from stomach trouble
Ethel R. Palm
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The greatest help and blessing of my life has come to...
Zolban O. Szentpali with contributions from Isabel Szentpali
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I want to express my gratitude for a demonstration of...
H. Glenn Bussey with contributions from Ruth M. Bussey
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As with so many others, Christian Science was my last...
James H. Topham
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Words cannot depict fully the deep sense of gratitude...
Minnie M. Hill
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Through the study of Christian Science I have learned...
Alta M. Mellen
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Signs of the Times
Hogg