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Many years ago an undiagnosed, extremely painful disease kept...
Many years ago an undiagnosed, extremely painful disease kept me bedfast for several weeks; and finally when all seemed lost because I was so weak from pain I could no longer move, I asked for the Christian Science Hymnal, and in a very weak voice started to sing some of my favorites. While I was singing, my husband arrived. He came and sat beside me and sang with me. This broke the mesmerism, and in a few days I was up and around.
However, before the healing was complete, I realized what had brought me to such a state of suffering. I had gone back to my home town while my husband was an officer serving in France, and when he returned he bought, without consulting me, a new house in a distant city where he was to be employed. The house was attractive and adequate but not in a location that I wanted to live in. I said very little, but resentment rankled in my thought for several years, and the resultant suffering proved to me that it would have been much better if I had worked out this problem in Christian Science with patience and love. With this healing came the opportunity to purchase a much larger and better house with more pleasant surroundings.
A few years later my husband and I had the wonderful experience of class instruction, and this helped us greatly when our little daughter was healed of a serious illness and my husband was healed of heart trouble. At a time when another undiagnosed sickness caused me great pain, a new meaning came to me of the third commandment which begins (Ex. 20:7), "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
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October 8, 1966 issue
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The Song of Celestial Being
E. VIOLET J. DICKSEE
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Christianity Is Scientific
JOHN H. WILLIAMS
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Understanding Our Spiritual Identity
BEVERLY BEMIS HAWKS
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Companioning with Reality
WILLIAM ROBERT SUDDABY
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Learning from a Train-spotter
CHRISTINE McMICKING
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HERITAGE OF LOVE
Jeanette LeMoyne
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An Interview: on the Theater
with contributions from George Hamlin
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How Do We Rank Our Neighbor?
Carl J. Welz
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Fidelity to Metaphysics
William Milford Correll
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I am wholeheartedly grateful to God, the Almighty, for the privilege...
Gertrud Hörner-Gasser
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The correction of a physical condition through spiritual means is...
Stuart E. Jefferson
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My introduction to Christian Science came when I was having...
Esther E. Burns
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Christian Science has blessed me in very many ways. It gives me...
Dorothy B. Biggs
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My wife and I have been students of Christian Science for over...
Carl E. Peterson with contributions from Emma M. Peterson
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Many years ago an undiagnosed, extremely painful disease kept...
Miriam C. Dalton
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Signs of the Times
Carl F. Stillman