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Until about twelve years ago I lived for worldly things
Until about twelve years ago I lived for worldly things. To all appearances I should have been happier than most people, but I suffered inwardly. I was troubled physically, mentally, and financially, and I kept it all to myself. Finally I became so miserable I felt I had mentally hit rock bottom. It was then I realized I had been ignoring God in my everyday life, even though I was an active member of a church.
I turned my life over to Him and enjoyed a new confidence and brighter outlook. Things in general went much better, but I was in need of spiritual understanding and didn't know where to get it. I was disappointed in the many books on religion I read because they only went so far. I wanted to learn how to tune in to the higher power through a better understanding of the Bible.
I then learned from my wife that her mother had been a Christian Scientist and had received several marvelous healings. My wife gave me her mother's copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I didn't understand it very well during the first reading, so I read it again. Then I knew it was the true key to the Scriptures.
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October 9, 1978 issue
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Take up the cross and follow Christ
YOSHIKAZU HOSHIMI
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No nature apart from the divine
RUTH KIEL MARTIN
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Face the light
THOMAS C. KELLER
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Loss is unreal!
CHRISTINE CAROL WEINER
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But he built the ark, too!
JANE CLARK WALKER
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God's child naturally
ALTA ZARA JOHN
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This day
Mary H. Gill
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Please, God—thank you, God
LOWELL N. CANNON
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Perfect you—perfect everybody
BARBARA J. PRESLER
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Made free
Virginia Young Townsend
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Beating fears
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Freedom from suffering
Nathan A. Talbot
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Seeking and finding
Rosemary Cobham
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Who's closest to you?
Eleanor Young Clapp
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Until about twelve years ago I lived for worldly things
Roger Critchlow
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There was a complete about-face in my life after I learned of...
Grace G. Weymouth
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Last fall I went to my friend's house in another city on vacation....
Daniel Paul Strickland with contributions from Norma W. Strickland
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I am very grateful for many years of excellent health with...
Maude R. Morris
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I have been a student of Christian Science for fifty years
Frances Ettinge
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My testimony in The Christian Science Journal of January 1961...
Doris L. Garlick