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The time has come for me to tell why I became a student of Christian Science. I hope it may prove a solution to others as it was to me. I did not primarily seek physical healing. All my life I had clung to a vision of Christianity which far transcended anything I had been taught about it. Poverty, suffering, evil, war, and the last enemy had no part in this vision. I had met and been blessed by many saintly men and women in various Christian sects. After my marriage, however, I turned from these to the seemingly broader concepts of theosophy. But there occultism lent such a color of mysticism and materialism that again I turned away.
About this time the world was in the throes of the depression following the First World War. In an endeavor to find some solution to the social and economic problems of this country, my husband and I surrendered our home, his very successful business, and all we possessed to live in community with a sect that seemed to us to have found such a solution. But this step resolved nothing, and in July, 1939, we returned penniless to start our lives again, completely disillusioned.
It was then that a friend of my husband gave us some Christian Science literature. This I read at first very halfheartedly. But before long the quiet assurance, promise, and poise which the articles and testimonies breathed, challenged the dispirited, disillusioned reaction of our recent experience. Soon I found a local Reading Room and borrowed the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I went to the church services and testimony meetings and began eager study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. Here at last was a glimpse of the truth for which I had been waiting so long, and I was ready to search every possible path of enlightenment. I had found the key to the puzzle of human existence, and as I learned to use it the whole solution bit by bit fell into place. Here in one small book were the rules by which one could prove for oneself that mortal life, with its sickness, injustice, inequality, want, and woe, is but a dream and not the result of some previous incarnation nor the monstrous jest of a Deity who could create both good and evil.
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December 4, 1948 issue
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AWAKENING TO OUR HERITAGE
KENDALL D. STUART
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OVERCOMING EVIL WITH GOOD
DOROTHY PRICE
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LOVE IS SUPREME
Edith M. Ericson
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THE COST OF LIVING
ALFRED H. HULSCHER
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"GIVE US GRACE FOR TO-DAY"
EDITH BAIRD ROBINSON
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"THE TRUE STATUS OF MAN"
CAROLINE B. WINGERT
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"IF I BE LIFTED UP"
MAYME DAHLEM
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BARBARA LEARNS NOT TO BE AFRAID
BLANCHE Y. BOLLINGER
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IN QUIET WAYS
Irene Cutlip Reuter
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EVIDENCE, FALSE AND TRUE
Robert Ellis Key
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INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
Helen Wood Bauman
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Before taking up the study of...
Robert Alexander Davie
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For many years Christian Science...
Marjorie Dingee
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It is with a grateful heart that...
Lillie G. Huiatt
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It is with deepest gratitude that...
Anna L. Bailey with contributions from Helene Moore Farmer
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For over thirty years the divine...
Florence Terry Lewis
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The time has come for me to tell...
D. Evelyn Whitear
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I should like to express my gratitude...
Lester H. Bright
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In 1921 I was confronted with...
Royal P. Maulsby
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THE NEW BIRTH
Jean McWhood
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Horace Hildreth, Lord Rowallan, Raimundo de Ovies, J. Edgar Hoover, George Peck