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[Original testimony in German]
I did not take up Christian Science to be healed of...
I did not take up Christian Science to be healed of sickness, but because I recognized it to be the pure Christ-teaching. Although since youth I had had a desire for the spiritually true, and this desire had often directed my way, yet I had to go through deep waters before I reached the true source. When all material support had broken down, divine Love led me to a Christian Science household. The great unselfish love which the people there extended to me opened my eyes, and I learned to understand what Jesus demands of brotherly love. The first Christian Science literature I read made a deep impression on me, and when I began to study the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, it became clearer and clearer to me what the apostle meant by proving our faith by our works. Up to that time the Bible had been for me a book closed as by seven seals; to-day it is a revelation.
I studied earnestly and honestly, and as soon as I had grasped some truth I did my best to put it into practice. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health that until we prove in daily life what we have learned, we do not understand it. One fault of character caused me a great deal of difficulty. A sense of self-righteousness had crept into my consciousness, and I did not want to admit that this was the case. I could not understand that when inharmony or sorrow attacked me it was possibly my own fault. If my attention was called to my mistakes, I was offended. To-day I am profoundly grateful to anyone who calls my attention to a fault, for then I can overcome it with Truth.
By honestly striving to replace that which I had recognized as false by that which is true, and by steadfastly clinging to the fact that God is an ever present help in every trouble, all erroneous conditions and circumstances have in a surprisingly short time taken a turn for the better. Heart trouble, rheumatism of the joints, periodically recurring headaches which tormented me unspeakably, have disappeared without any specific work. The problem of supply and a home was solved in a wonderful manner by continually realizing that God has prepared everything for His children. When I endeavor to express God in my daily life, then I have everything I need, even an abundance.
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November 2, 1929 issue
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"What hast thou in the house?"
HENRY REIMERS
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Meekness and Might
BLANCHE NELSON
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Realizing Freedom
PRISCILLA M. ALDEN
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Look Up!
NORAH L. M. FOSTER
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True Philanthropy
WILIAM COLWELL BARTLETT
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"The Mary of to-day looks up"
MADGE D. STAFFORD
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Worship
ELIZABETH LINCOLN BUSH
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There recently appeared in your paper a news item covering...
W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,
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In a further letter which appeared in your issue of the 5th...
Charles H. Parker, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,
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Christian Science is classed with new-thought in an unsigned...
John Murray Burriss, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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My attention has been called to a report in your columns...
Mrs. Ann P. Hewitt, Committee on Publication for the North Island of New Zealand,
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"Be still, and know that I am God"
CATHERINE M. CLISSOLD
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Announcement
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Righteous Giving
Albert F. Gilmore
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Spiritual Power
Duncan Sinclair
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Effective Denunciation
Violet Ker Seymer
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Because of a feeling of profound gratitude to God and...
Jacqueline Dalas Munier
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At the time Christian Science was brought to my attention,...
Daniel A. Rexford
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Christian Science was revealed to me at a time when I...
Amanda Rawlings Seger
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Early in 1901 I was suffering from consumption, dyspepsia,...
Beulah Atkinson Farrar
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In the year 1912, while I was suffering from a nervous...
Rosina L. Campbell
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I first heard of Christian Science in India in 1914
Norah Blackmore with contributions from H. Stuart Blackmore
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Christian Science came to my attention about six years...
Arthur Brockner
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Peace
CICELY L. BLOCK
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from H. R. L. Sheppard, Elias Jones, Frederick M. Eliot, O. P. Gifford, T. T. Carter