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As a child I attended a Protestant Sunday School
As a child I attended a Protestant Sunday school. I also dutifully accompanied my parents at the regular church services. Passing the age of adolescence, I began to question the validity of much that I had read in the Bible, and also of the learned dissertations by ministers of the gospel to which I had listened. I did not question the sincerity of the preachers, nor did I depreciate the importance of the Bible as a source of ethical culture, but the seeming contradictions and inconsistencies appearing in the Scriptures, especially in the Old Testament, puzzled me. Gradually my interest in religion faded and I became a questioning agnostic.
On reaching manhood I became addicted to the use of tobacco. The desire for alcoholic drink grew with cumulative effect until I became a confirmed drinker. Profanity and a debased sense of humor were other unlovely traits which had become a part of me. I had been physically frail and sickly from childhood, and through the years had used up countless bottles of advertised remedies and tonics in a futile search for health.

July 17, 1943 issue
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Building a New World
D. MURIEL SAVARY
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Awareness of Truth Nullifies Error
GLENN E. DOUGLAS
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Defense Work
MARY RETTA TITUS
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You Need Not Be Separated
MARY TAYLOR GIFFORD
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Family
HOWARD IRWIN
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Protection
ELSA DE REMEAUX
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Rejoice, Ye Heavens, and Ye Inhabiters of the Earth
LEILA C. HARSCH
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Communion
FLORENCE E. GLASS
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"What will you do about it?"
John Randall Dunn
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Man Is Spiritual, Not Material
Paul Stark Seeley
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I desire to testify to God's protecting...
Estel Webb
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Over twenty years ago I began...
Zuelma B. Happer
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I am expressing my gratitude...
Henrietta Pfeil
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I began the study of Christian Science...
Edith Hazel Klingensmith
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As a child I attended a Protestant Sunday School
Frederic Hueston
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It is with great joy that I give...
Leona B. M. Ross
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With a very grateful heart I...
Edith de Chair
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"What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee"
PEARLE M. WARREN
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Sunday School of The Mother Church
By Mrs. Alice Pyke Howe, Sunday School Superintendent
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Effective Advertising in The Christian Science Monitor
By Alfred C. Fuller
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Monitor Newsgathering in Washington
By Mary Hornaday
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Our Periodicals
By Paul Stark Seeley,
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Literature Activities of The Mother Church
By Mina C. Pedersen