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After many years of poor health...
After many years of poor health and much discouragement I realized that material methods were not able to solve my problems, and I felt sure that if I was to be healed, God must heal me. The thought came to me that I had a God-given right to be free.
My sister asked me if I would talk to a very loving woman who could make one feel much comforted. I consented and found that this woman was a student of Christian Science. Her spiritual understanding made clear to me the meaning of these two Bible verses: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32), and, "We 'are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (II Cor. 5:8).
I began studying the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and attending services in a Church of Christ, Scientist, putting my rather frail nine-year-old son in the Sunday School. The testimonies of healing at the Wednesday evening meetings and the solos and hymns at the Sunday services were particularly comforting. The loving and reassuring manner of the people who attended was uplifting. No condition was allowed to keep me from the church services or my boy from Sunday School. We were so glad to be conscious of God; it was our first real happiness.
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August 22, 1953 issue
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MIND IS EXPRESSED
PAULINE B. RADER
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MAN'S HOME ADDRESS IS HEAVEN
PETER J. HENNIKER-HEATON
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EVERLASTING COVENANT
DOROTHY EILEEN HEYWOOD-DOVE
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TO A READER
Marion Alice Bowers
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EXCHANGING GLOOM FOR GLORY
LINDEN E. JONES
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"A WORLD MORE BRIGHT"
ELSE L. A. BUCHENBERGER
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OUR CHILDREN ARE SAFE
KATHARINE A. FORREST
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"COME AND SEE"
EMILY RUTH SUMMERS
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THE COMFORTER
Sylvia Joan Albery
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A MENTAL STATE
Helen Wood Bauman
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THE COSMOS OF MIND
Robert Ellis Key
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LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from Inman H. Douglass, Colin R. Eddison, Donald R. Lane
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FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from Leslie Twigg-Patterson, Stephen J. Sametz, Lloyd E. Contant, Curtis L. Coats
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THE HEALING HEM
Adelaide Rothenberg
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My introduction to Christian Science...
Otto L. Estabrooks with contributions from Mary Gammer
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It is with heartfelt praise and...
Alfrieda Handelsman
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Christian Science found me when...
Jayne Monroe
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How thankful we should be to...
David W. Allen
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After many years of poor health...
Sybil E. Ashinhurst
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Many years ago I experienced an...
Lottie M. Sweeting
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As one who has had the benefit...
Cora I. McLennan
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"Make a joyful noise unto the...
Ella Jane Taylor
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Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy,...
Barbara Abbey
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Robert S. Lee, Hermann N. Morse, Henry Geerlings, R. W. Stokes, Russell H. Hoy