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"WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE?"
For many years the writer, like most students of Christian Science, has daily studied the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly. One morning human activities seemed unduly pressing, but she decided to put first things first. She knew that the truths contained in the current Lesson would sustain her for the day and make her tasks lighter.
One of the sections contained the account of Jesus' healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda, recorded by John (5:2—9). The suggestion came that she could skip that Bible section because she was thoroughly familiar with the story. But as she picked up the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, she was reminded that regardless of how often she had read familiar Bible texts and passages from our Leader's writings, she had always received fresh inspiration. So she turned back to the Bible quotations and read slowly and carefully the account of this remarkable healing. When she came to the verse where the impotent man, in reply to Jesus' question, "Wilt thou be made whole?" answered, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool," a new light dawned upon her consciousness.
Here was one who had had an infirmity thirty-eight years. Probably, she reasoned, in that length of time he would have exhausted every material method of healing and perhaps even been given up as incurable by the medical profession, yet he was still looking to matter for healing, still believing in the superstition of the times that the waters of the pool held some miraculous virtue of healing. He was also looking for some person to help him into the pool. The writer saw that this man was looking to person to help him regain his health. And she learned a valuable lesson from this: the need to overcome dependence on human personality.
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August 20, 1949 issue
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"THE NEW BIRTH BEGUN IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE"
J. BUROUGHS STOKES
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WORKING FOR THE WORLD
DOROTHY A. EREAUT
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LIBERATION THROUGH PERSISTENCY
MAX J. SIMON
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REFLECTING LIFE VERSUS MAKING A LIVING
NANA WOLAVER
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OUR GOD
WILLIAM AUBERT LUCE
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TRUE EXPRESSION
J. Zona Koogler
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RECOGNIZING OUR TRUE SELFHOOD
CATHERINE ANNETTE HUBBELL
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"WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE?"
AVELYN M. KERR
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LOVE ONE ANOTHER
CLARA T. WATSON
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LIGHT AT NAIN
Alexander A. Le M. Simpson
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THE PERCEPTIVE FACULTY
George Channing
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THE TEST OF LOVE
Robert Ellis Key
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So wrote our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy...
Maude Platt Murray
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It was in the year 1910 that I...
Jane Bell
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Mary Baker Eddy tells us in our...
Estelle D. Proctor
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I have had so many healings in...
Ethel Chadwick
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"Entirely separate from the belief...
Helen Grace Patterson
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I should like to tell how I first...
Clyde E. King with contributions from Ernest Lamoureux
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In the Song of Solomon (2:15)...
Ethel Waide
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Seven years ago, while an officer...
Robert C. Cannom
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"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and...
Emilie Stucki
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HEED NOT ERROR
Lucye Walker Parkes
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Joseph Fort Newton, G. Ashton Oldham, G. Musgrave, M. D. L. McLellan