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I suffered with a very severe case of tonsillitis for several...
I suffered with a very severe case of tonsillitis for several days. Then I shut myself up in a room with my Christian Science textbooks and determined to master the situation. For hours I studied faithfully. I actually seemed to see and understand the unreality of the claim, but the healing did not take place. The next day I went to a practitioner who had been spoken highly of, and who lived six blocks distant. She gave me a treatment, and said as I was leaving that she felt I was healed. Apparently I was not healed, and as I commenced the trip back on foot I felt very much discouraged. When the distance was about half covered, I noticed that the swelling in my throat was beginning to abate. This continued, and when I had finished the trip, the healing was almost complete.
Mrs. Eddy has said that to hold disease "as something seen and felt" and then to attempt its cure in Christian Science is "mental quackery" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 395). My tonsils were so swollen that the mere process of swallowing was extremely painful. Relief from this condition was my underlying desire; so much so, that I was thereby admitting the reality of disease; and this apparently had prevented my own demonstration.
Paul A. Lindley, Oakland, California.
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November 12, 1927 issue
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Spiritual Birth
VINCENT H. P. MOLTENO
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The Way
ALICE DAVIS SHELMIRE
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The Open Door
ELLA B. CAMPBELL
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Expectation
NELL FLASH
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The Purpose of Life
KATHLEEN COOPER PIERCE
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Forgiveness
CUTHBERT SYDNEY BOOTH
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Man's Dominion
MYRTIE V. GREGORY
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"Be still, and know"
MARIE L. DAAB
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The attack on the Christian Science Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist,...
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
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In a letter to the Advertiser containing a defense of allopathic...
Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,
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Number 51 of your esteemed paper contains a report of...
Paul Gassner, Committee on Publication for Germany,
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"Student" condemns Christian Science as antichristian
Robert Ramsey, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
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Allow me to reply to certain passages in Monsieur Paul-Louis Hervier's...
Mrs. Caroline Getty, Committee on Publication for France,
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Out of Nazareth
AMY CAROLINE THROSSELL
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What We Understand
Albert F. Gilmore
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Repentance which Availeth
Ella W. Hoag
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The One Mind
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from John White, Albert C. Weyand, Nellie E. Mitchell
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I am so grateful for the benefits we have received through...
Gertrude Virtue Vail
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I came to Christian Science for healing, and found it...
Louise V. Horlacher
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I can never cease to be grateful for the wonderful change...
Muriel Sordes Ellis
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With a heart full of gratitude I wish to testify to the...
Helen L. McDearmon
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I suffered with a very severe case of tonsillitis for several...
Paul A. Lindley
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"Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations."...
Marie Stricker-Künzler
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science, and...
Annie C. Mclellan
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All Will Come Right
ESTHER MURRAY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. W. Moore, Gordon Palmer, H. Nicol Cross