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Stick to the Script!
The practitioner's telephone rang. It was six o'clock in the morning. A young woman was acutely ill. And—this was her wedding day!
Was this a disaster in the making? Not at all. On the contrary, it was seen and seized as an opportunity to prove the glorious truth that "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword." Heb. 4:12; The Christian Science practitioner said with great conviction, "This illness is not in the script, and you and I are going to stick to the script."
Just what did this remark mean? How did it apply to the emergency? We all recognize that a character in a play exists in the mind of the author who creates and writes the script. It might be Shakespeare's "Hamlet" or Disney's "Mickey Mouse." The point is that the character is a creation of its author. Nothing can be the experience of the individual character aside from the conceptions of the author.
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March 17, 1973 issue
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Blameless Being
PETER B. VANDERHOEF
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Restoration
ROBERT HUTCHINSON-BROOKS
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Stick to the Script!
HELEN OAKLEY ROCKHOLD
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Many Loves Synchronized
MARGUERITE E. BUTTNER
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The Healing Touch Is Spiritual
JACK A. KRIEGER
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Overcoming Fear of Sleeplessness
ROSE PRICE
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Need an Idea?
MARY CHASE LOMBARD
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SWEET ARE THE USES ...
Carol Earle Chapin
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I Am Not Afraid
Cornelia Joyce Haley
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Ask for the Ultimate
Carl J. Welz
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Reconstructing the Body
Naomi Price
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On the wall of our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is inscribed...
William C. Ferguson with contributions from Melva Lucinda Ferguson
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With joy I submit this testimony, hoping it will lift the present...
Janet S. Sills with contributions from Barbara C. Larson
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I attended a Christian Science Sunday School when I was a boy...
Michael L. Nash with contributions from Jackie Nash
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It would take many pages for me to testify fully to the blessings...
Velta Ruth Lee with contributions from Konrad Hahn