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Like a great many others, I had dropped away from the...
Like a great many others, I had dropped away from the religion I had been taught as a child, because I could not believe in the God and heaven I had been told about. I had come to the conclusion that we could not expect to know anything about these matters in this mortal life. I believed in a God, but it was the "unknown God" of whom Paul spoke as the God of the Athenians, a God who could only be worshiped ignorantly. I was in this condition of thought when I decided to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, a few years ago. I had read about three quarters of the book when I found myself relieved of the liquor habit; I also found that I was unable to use tobacco in any way.
Now, up to this time I had thought that Christian Science was probably a very good thing for nervous people, who imagined that they had various ailments; but it is one thing to hear of another person being healed, and quite different when one is affected one's self. The healing as a healing was of no consequence to me. I had not indulged deeply, and no one had suffered through my use of liquor or tobacco. I had no desire to be healed of these habits, and would probably have refused the healing if it had been offered to me as a gift. The important thing to me was that the mere reading of a book could have such an effect upon me. I had not studied it; I had no practitioner or instructor; I had merely perused the book. I had to admit that the power spoken of in this book was not an unknown power, but the One in whom "we live, and move, and have our being." I realized that I, who had not prayed for maybe twenty years, had come into direct contact with the supreme power.

May 21, 1927 issue
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The Second Mile
MARY H. CUMMINS
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"God shall supply all your need"
ALLAN CARSON
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Truth's Price
F. CARMON HERRICK
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An Understanding Faith
ANNA G. HERRING
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Press On
MATTIE MARVIN PETTIT
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Experience
MABEL SHERRIFF AYRES
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On the Watch
ALTA E. COOK
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"I love your promise"*
FLORENCE ELIZABETH BUCK
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It is surprising that anyone intelligent enough to be a...
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
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In a recent issue your report of a sermon in St. John's Church, Preston,...
Arthur E. Blainey, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,
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In a short report in your paper of Dr. Den Hertog's...
Dr. David A. Giel, Committee on Publication for Holland,
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Being the authorized representative of Christian Scientists...
Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
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"Charity suffereth long, and is kind"
EUNICE M. BRONSON
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On the Overcoming of Evil
Albert F. Gilmore
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The Christ-spirit in Healing
Duncan Sinclair
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Position
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Charles G. McAron, Alice L. Kinsman, Ethel W. Stone, Mrs. de Vries, Hubert J. Lawrence
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Christian Science has been such a great help to me that I...
Gertrude Maude Fargher
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Like a great many others, I had dropped away from the...
Francis C. Sadler
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Of the many blessings which our beloved Christian Science...
Hélène Bresson
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Not having the privilege of being able to join in the...
Elizabeth Griswold
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Many years ago I was enabled to discard the use of...
Elsie A. Koefoed
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Many years ago, when Christian Science was first introduced...
Doris Helen Dawson
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Twenty-two years ago, when my husband told me of the...
Bertha von Deutsch
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With God
AGNES V. SINZ
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. A. Lowther