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From the Field
[From the Annual Report of Work at California State Prison, San Quetin, California]
Like the day of Pentecost, when all were gathered with one accord in one place, Thanksgiving Day services in the men's department at San Quentin Penitentiary were unmistakably touched by the Holy Spirit. Testimonies of Christian Science healing, written for the occasion by inmates of the institution, were read from the desk to a chapel crowded with attentive worshipers.
Christian Science services have been held in the women's department at San Quentin every Sunday morning. The regular attendance is about forty women. It is truly their service—they join so heartily in singing the hymns, in the responsive reading and the Lord's Prayer. The very close attention given to the reading of the Lesson-Sermon is most gratifying. The loving cooperation of the superintendent and of the seven matrons in the prison gives us a great sense of satisfaction. The Thanksgiving service was a joyous occasion. A number of the women testified to the great blessings received through the study of Christian Science, and a most loving spirit prevailed. The workers felt that it was a blessing to attend this service and to join with the others in testifying to the benefits received.
Our library consists of the Bible; "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and all our revered Leader's other works; "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur, and "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait" by Lyman P. Powell. The books of the circulating library are kept in a bookcase in the large living room, and the librarian keeps a list of those who use them. Each woman who is a student of Christian Science has her copy of the Bible and Science and Health and the Quarterly in her room. The regular periodicals the Journal, Sentinel, and Monitor, are all supplied in sufficient numbers to fill the requirements of the women who are interested in reading them, and they are greatly appreciated. The librarian told us that she had requests from fifty of the women for the Christian Science Quarterly, containing the Lesson-Sermons, when the last Quarterly was issued.
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May 14, 1932 issue
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The Mother Church
MARGUERITE SCOTT TILL
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Treasure
JOHN L. MOTHERSHEAD
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Leaving the Field to God
MARY H. CUMMINS
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Man's Best Connection
GEORGE J. SCHANTZ
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Deity Outlines
HILDA TAYLOR
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Truth Knows No Defeat
MARTHA MAY SMITH
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Prayer
ELIZABETH A. M. COWAN
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Going On from the Sunday School
J. LILIAN VANDEVERE
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Christian Science is the religion of Christ Jesus practiced...
Richard H. Smith, Committee on Publication for the State of Montana,
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Your issues of September 4 and 11 contain reports of...
Charles W. J. Tennant,
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Little Things
CLARA REYNOLDS SMITH
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Notice
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Prohibition
Clifford P. Smith
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Running Our Race
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Magda Carolina Hellstrom, Francis M. Ellis, Georgia M. Jones, Tennie Lowe Lile
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"And he arose, and came to his father." These familiar...
Warren Alexander Stowell
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I should like to express my great gratitude for the many...
Anna Eleonora Martens
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After studying Christian Science for fourteen years I am...
Agnes F. Montgomery
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I did not become interested in Christian Science through...
Elizabeth N. Bomhoff with contributions from L. Frederick Bomhoff
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It is with a feeling of deep gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy,...
Ruth W. Hungerford
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It is with heartfelt gratitude to God for leading me to...
Gertrude Warrington
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From the moment my mother began the study of the...
Lorna Duke Brown
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Filled with sincere gratitude for God's great love and...
Hans Joachim Linde with contributions from Gertrud Linde
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My Prayer
AGNES W. WRIGHT
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. A. Thompson, W. Foxley Norris, Samuel Thurman