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As one who has had the mental companionship of Christian Science...
As one who has had the mental companionship of Christian Science through the years of adolescence and has used it through five years of college student life, I am happy to be able to testify of what this religion of divine Principle can mean to a young man during these formative periods.
Something of the manner in which my parents and I groped for a solid footing in the understanding of Life is hinted in the fact that before I was fourteen years old I had been under the teachings of four divergent churches or sects. If one is inclined to wonder what the universe is and for what purpose he is in it, his early years, under any system of thinking less comprehensive than Christian Science, are likely to be mentally discomforting. It was, therefore, as a philosophy which could explain all existence from the consistent and rational basis of spiritual reasoning that this Science appealed to me. The sense of satisfaction, comfort, and security I have had in feeling thus firmly established in a system broad enough to answer all my needs has more than rewarded, and still rewards, the time I have spent in its study. Some of these rewards have been in the shape of physical healing. Through Christian Science I have been freed of sick headaches, which were becoming chronic, and have been healed of earache and influenza.
Christian Science has also helped me to settle the choice of a vocation through the assurance that my profession, whatever it might be,—and it is now journalism,—would be the expression of divine activity, and could only lead into the place God would have me fill. The fact that my college grades were among the highest in my classes is attributable, I know, to the aid of Christian Science in reflecting divine intelligence. Participation in college activities and appreciation of contact with my fellow-students were made easier for me by the understanding in Science that all are the sons and daughters of God, and endued, in reality, with His qualities. For the very fact that I have completed a university course I am grateful to Christian Science, since my schooling was made possible only through a series of demonstrations over disease and lack.
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November 24, 1923 issue
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Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
Calvin Coolidge
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Man Satisfied
PLEASANT HILDEBRAND
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Receiving and Giving versus Getting and Withholding
LEONARD T. CARNEY
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"Love is our refuge"
ALLAN CARSON
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"Wherefore didst thou doubt?"
ELIZABETH CHALLIS ADAMS
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"We shall reap, if we faint not"
ELSA CROSS
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Israel Triumphant
ANITA ST. JOHN KELLY
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Thanksgiving
ELENORA E. PIKE
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Christian Science is practical, spiritual Christianity
Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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A consistent and unprejudiced reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Willard J. Welch, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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Isaiah warned those of his time against enchantments,...
S. Britton R. Foster, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,
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Christian Scientists are trying to follow Christ Jesus in...
H. L. Standeven, Committee on Publication for the State of Oklahoma,
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There is not the slightest resemblance between the teachings...
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from Anna Six
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Words of Counsel
MARY BAKER G. EDDY with contributions from Editor
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On the Giving of Thanks
Albert F. Gilmore
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"Trials are proofs of God's care"
Duncan Sinclair
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Thankfulness and Gratitude
Ella W. Hoag
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from Hans Struss, Jeannette Tidball, Aaron E. Brandt, Cecil L. Dunn
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With the desire to help others who may be suffering as...
Edgar S. Marvin
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As a family, we had lived for many years in bondage...
Minnie DeWitt
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One great healing in my life stands out so clearly and...
Vienna U. White
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I am deeply grateful for Christian Science, and for all it...
Katharine Brown
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Christian Science first came to my attention when, as a...
Eleanor Creighton
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The healing of one of my sisters, several years ago, of a...
Nelson K. Miller
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In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by...
Matilda Pauline Siedoff
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It is with deep gratitude that I offer the testimony of my...
John G. Golding
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I am so grateful for what Christian Science has done...
Nona J. Hardin
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Christian Science came to me because of the earnest...
Carelius Emil Christiani
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from D. H. Kress, McConnell, E. Harold Toye, Lon D. Parker, Clifton Merritt, Alexander Maclaren, Cairns