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In my youth I had the opportunity...
In my youth I had the opportunity of attending a Christian Science Sunday School. I remember my childhood and young womanhood as exceedingly happy and satisfying. During college, however, I allowed myself to drift away from this Science, took up smoking and social drinking, and, not long after graduation, I married a physician.
My husband was a fine young man, dedicated to helping others. When he did not return from World War II, I was desolate. Self-pity and resentment soon dictated my life until there was no escape from my misery. I tried psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, other religions—everything I could think of for some way out. Once or twice I opened my copy of Science and Health, but it had become unintelligible to me.
One day, almost without thinking, I called a practitioner, and from that day on blessings began to unfold. Science and Health suddenly became a new book to me, the most meaningful and beautiful book I had ever read. Right away I began to be able to make decisions, a faculty that had slowly deserted me through the years. I began to find happiness in a new marriage. Although we moved around considerably because of my husband's occupation, satisfactory housing, even in the most overcrowded areas, was immediately forthcoming as I learned to listen for God's directing and lived in the constant expectancy of good.
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January 21, 1961 issue
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Our Father's Business
EDWARD FRODERMAN
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He Cares for Us
MILDRED NISSEN
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True Appetite
RICHARD CARVER
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Breaking the Chains of Fear
ELIZABETH BICE LUERSSEN
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The Heavenly Calling
LEONA C. HALLINAN
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God-inspired Optimism
CAROL FREDERIC HIGGINS
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Denying Error
Helen Wood Bauman
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"Look up, and lift up your heads"
Ralph E. Wagers
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RADIO PROGRAM No. 383 - Who and What Is God?
with contributions from Albert Smith
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On my return from service in...
Roy William Abercromby
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It is with great joy that I relate...
Bette Cohen
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The Psalmist writes (Ps. 107:8)...
Edity M. Fess
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With a sincere desire to thank...
Beulah R. Vize
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Our daughter, when a small...
Marjorie B. Wright
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In my youth I had the opportunity...
Eleanor B. Machia
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Many faulty traits of character...
E. Irene Jennison
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Christian Science has been my...
Hilda Katz
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Trevor Davies' Corner, John S. Noftle