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I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but because I wanted to know more of a God who is available at all times and under all circumstances. When a child I had attended an orthodox Sunday school, but had not gained the faintest understanding of the Scriptures or of God. My Sunday school experience had been looked on as merely pleasing from the standpoint of association with other children.
Several years ago, a sister was healed through Christian Science; and later, when I visited her, I was taken to a Christian Science church much against my inclination. After attending services a few times I began to realize that Christian Scientists had something that other church people, with whom I had been associated, lacked; and I began to want that something. I obtained a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and a Christian Science Quarterly, and started the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon.
My journey from sense to Soul has been slow, and I used to wish I might have a physical difficulty so that I might have a healing and experience that spiritual uplift which I thought must accompany physical healing. The first healing I admitted was that of sorrow over the passing on of a friend. I was greatly comforted by the treatments of a practitioner, but still that dwarfing question "Why?" held me in bondage. One week the Lesson-Sermon contained the account of the healing of the Canaanite woman's daughter; and the thought came, She got what she asked by being satisfied to receive even the crumbs; and when I am grateful for good already received, I too shall receive that for which I long. From that time I began to see what I was gaining by my study, and I realized that I had been expecting to wear the crown before I bore the cross.
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December 6, 1924 issue
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Guarding Our Inheritance
ETTA M. GILBREATH
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Spiritual Abundance
ROBERT STANLEY ROSS
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No False Beliefs
LETHA LOIS WALTERS
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Humility
JAMES H. RICHARDS
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Growth through Obedience
EUGENE P. COLLINS
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Shake the Dust from off Your Feet
MARION GERTRUDE SIMMONS
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Kindly allow me to say a word in your columns by reason...
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church,
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When the writer of the article under consideration said:...
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
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The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Albert John Windle, Committee on Publication for Nottinghamshire, England,
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Christian Science does not ignore evil, but meets it as...
Charles W. J. Tennant,
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"As a little child"
HELEN NEWHALL WINCHESTER
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Letters from the Field
Katherine Porter Smith with contributions from Clara H. Bradner, Barbara J. Borradaile
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Faith and Receptivity
Albert F. Gilmore
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"Overcome evil with good"
Duncan Sinclair
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Divine Theology
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Bliss Knapp, Eleanor Ostrander, Bertha I. Weldon, George Shaw Cook
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The overcoming of smoking, or the tobacco habit, is one...
Howard C. McCann
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My first healing in Christian Science, five years ago,...
Helen McDonald Stott
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I have been a student of Christian Science for a number...
Guy Monroe Thomas
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We have had many physical healings in our family during...
Etta Mae McMaster
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I did not take up the study of Christian Science for...
Sannie Alice W. Allen
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Ten years ago I was healed of a very severe attack of...
Katherine E. Nash
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The understanding of God which I have acquired in...
Cornelia Rice Bartran
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"Our God is Love"
MARY F. KINGSTON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Dorothy Dix, Harry S. Longley