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Christian Scientists have many opportunities for expressing...
Christian Scientists have many opportunities for expressing gratitude, and I would delay no longer in giving to the field grateful acknowledgment of the many blessings and healings that have come to me during the more than twenty years since this wonderful truth came into my life, transforming it from semi-invalidism and discouragement to health and activity.
I wish to speak especially of a healing which came about after an accident. On the morning of November 16, 1914, a bullet of twenty-two caliber was accidentally shot from a rifle a few feet behind me, and entered my skull about two inches back of the left ear. I was lingering at the breakfast table with a friend who made her home with us at the time. Not knowing that a rifle was being handled, I first thought it was an electric shock. When my friend said that I had been shot, immediately there came to me the realization that God's presence is all there is. I did not lose consciousness even for a moment, and this clear sense of God's presence took away all fear. I was doing the work at that time of First Reader in our church. The lesson for the Wednesday evening testimony meeting the night previous had been on God's deliverance of Daniel from the lions. I was indeed soon forced to prove the truth given out there, — that God's protection and power can preserve His child intact, and annul claims of all claims of material law to injure. I was the only Scientist in the home, and the others requested that a physician be called; but I said, "No, call a practitioner," giving them the telephone number, and they did as I requested. Then I said, "Do not tell any one else." A boy in the family who attended our Christian Science Sunday School was asked to read the first section of the Lesson-Sermon for that week to me. The subject was "Soul and Body," and it seemed to be written especially for me. One verse from the Bible was, "Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord." Then came the definition of "flesh" from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 586): "An error of physical belief; a supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter; an illusion; a belief that matter has sensation." This section was read over several times, until the child's thought was quieted and we knew that the flesh was no part of my true being, and that the spiritual, perfect man was unharmed.
After the child had gone to school I read the whole lesson through, then walked to the telephone and talked with the practitioner. There was no faintness, no pain,—only a dull feeling in the head and a slight ringing in the ears. I went upstairs to my room, where I could be quiet and free from observation. All through the day, one passage after another from the Bible and from Science and Health—messages from God—came to my thought to reassure and sustain me. That evening, when a member of the family came home from work, he insisted upon calling a physician, since there was fear of the need of a possible operation; and to satisfy the fears of the family, I consented. Upon examination, the physician said that the bullet had entered the skull and that he could not tell where it was lodged, but that if certain symptoms appeared, which he named, an operation would be necessary to remove the bullet. Though not called, he came the next evening to see how I was; but that was his last visit.
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April 18, 1925 issue
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Watch Your Thought
KATE W. BUCK
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"The gate . . . called Beautiful"
ARTHUR TIPTON STEWART
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Grace
CHARLES F. HACKETT
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Unfoldment
ORA C. ROUECHE
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"Thy will be done"
F. EDITH HILL
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Seeking the Kingdom of God
CHARLES C. SANDELIN
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Will you please permit me space to express appreciation...
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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When John sent his disciples to inquire of Jesus if he was...
Henry Deutsch, Committee on Publication for the State of Minnesota,
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It can unquestionably be assumed that one reason for the...
S. Britton R. Foster, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,
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Our worthy critic is at variance with the Bishop of St. Albans...
J. Ormston Thomson, Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia,
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The Rich Young Man
MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL
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God's Work is Done
Albert F. Gilmore
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The Word is with Power
Ella W. Hoag
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God's Thoughts
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from A. L. Lloyd, Glenn Adams Byers, Richard Hubert Smith
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Christian Scientists have many opportunities for expressing...
Clara C. Hanson
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My debt to divine Love can never be repaid or expressed...
George E. Trembly
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In 1910 my sight and my life were saved by Christian Science...
Pleasant Hildebrand
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In tendering this testimony of gratitude, I do so fully...
David Millhauser
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After I had suffered for several years with what the...
Phebe A. King
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Some years ago Christian Science found me in a very...
Marie Agnes Harlow
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"Now is the day of salvation"
ETHEL MARGARET SODEN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from J. Alfred Kaye, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, E. S. Martin, Coolidge