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Thanks be to God for leading...
Thanks be to God for leading me to Christian Science. I did not hear of this religion until I got a job at a place where the manager was a Christian Scientist. This man's Christian living, and his talks to me about the truth which Science teaches, broke my materialistic outlook on life in the two and a half years that I worked for him. I was enabled to see, though dimly, the spiritual nature of life. During the more than twenty years since then Science has been my trustworthy guide and Comforter.
The greatest joy I am experiencing through my understanding of Christian Science is in my spiritual progress. But I have been much benefited physically, too. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 463), "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive." Not long ago, through the understanding that there is no sensation in mater, I was healed of what I believe was athlete's foot. Two summers ago my right arm was sore for several weeks. This soreness, which I thought might have been caused by overwork, was, however, healed while I was working still harder, when I realized that matter cannot experience fatigue. Our Leader writes (ibid., p. 217), "The scientific and permanent remedy for fatigue is to learn the power of Mind over the body or any illusion of physical weariness, and so destroy this illusion, for matter cannot be weary and heavy-laden."
Christian Science enabled me to stop drinking coffee and tea at least ten years ago. It has made me a much better man than I was before. It has changed my dark, material thinking, the concomitants of which are fear, hate, jealousy, and ignorance, into enlightened right thinking, the blessings of which are courage, love, joy, and spiritual understanding. My former gloomy existence has become joyous, expectant living. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 171) Mrs. Eddy says, "To-day is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 'And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.'"
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December 21, 1946 issue
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"Blest Christmas morn"—Always!
ROBERT HARDY SMITH
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Certainly You Have a Home!
MARY LOUISE GAMMAGE
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The Joy of Being a Christian Scientist
CHARLES ROSSITER STUART
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False Evidence versus True Evidence
DORIS M. SMITH
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"There was no room for them in the inn"
THELMA BROOKS
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The Immediacy of Healing
KATHRYN PAULSON
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Man Is Never under a Strain
ROBERT DOLLING WELLS
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The Secret and Safe Place
EVELYN JOY ALBRIGHT
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Christ Jesus
MARY BAKER THOMPSON
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Demand and Supply Coincident
Paul Stark Seeley
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Happy Christmas!
Margaret Morrison
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Letters to the Press from Christian Science Committees on Publication
with contributions from Wilbur A. Barton, Scott D. Sloan, Sidney F. Rallings
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Nehemiah
FRANCES M. PRAY
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Christmas Carol
M. ELIZABETH KIRWIN
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The blessings which have come...
Grace Summerbell
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Thanks be to God for leading...
Anthony Budnik
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Christian Science found me an...
Clara B. Minier
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With a heart full of gratitude to...
Ada Levy
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I wish to express my gratitude...
Faith W. Reges
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Having had the privilege of...
Maybell Strock
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At one time I was a regular...
Thomas Archer Claydon with contributions from Katherine Wollin
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Answered Prayer
MYRTLE A. CASH
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. H. Holland, Henry E. Ridley