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One day I dropped a silver teapot...
One day I dropped a silver teapot and broke its ebony handle. As I was repairing it, the screw driver slipped and penetrated the palm of my left hand. The pain was acute, blood spurted out, and the whole arm felt paralyzed.
When I came to, I heard myself repeating part of "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." As soon as I got to the words, "All is infinite Mind," the pain vanished and the bleeding stopped. I washed off the blood, and that was the end of the incident except for a series of aggressive mental suggestions which kept presenting themselves to my consciousness: You must have severed an artery, you will have to put on a bandage, you won't be able to use that hand tomorrow, and so forth. So I asked my wife to help me, and together we reversed every suggestion with statements of truth. The result was that the accident faded like the baseless fabric of a vision and left not a trace behind. The next day I traveled over a hundred miles to see a pageant, and the hand and arm were entirely normal in use and appearance. A day later I played golf.

November 15, 1947 issue
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THE PATTERN FOR SECURITY
BESSIE MAY TEOREY
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SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Marian J. Cobb
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TEACHABLENESS
NEIL H. BOWLES
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TURN FROM SORROW
Opal Winstead
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"IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST"
LILLIAN A. LAMOREAUX
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PRACTICAL EXCELLENCE
HERBERT W. COCHRAN
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
JAYNE GAGE
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"MAKING THE HANDS GIVE"
GERALD STANWELL
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AWAKENING
Margret B. Freligh
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CONQUERING THE "REBEL WILL"
John Randall Dunn
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THE TRUTH ABOUT ENVIRONMENT
L. Ivimy Gwalter
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With a heart overflowing with...
Marguerite Richard
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I am glad of this opportunity to...
John W. Lucas
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When Christian Science came to...
Hulda Lee Baldwin
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I am grateful for healings in...
Lilly Lind-Quist
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I should like to express my gratitude...
Donnie M. Pinkston
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One day I dropped a silver teapot...
Malcolm Bruce Milne
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My song of gratitude for Christian Science...
Dora Stevenson with contributions from Laura Stevenson Vesper
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TRUTH'S OWN REASONING
Amy G. Viau
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Frank Martin, C. Aubrey Hearn, Charles L. Copenhaver, Charles L. Taylor