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One night after I had gone swimming, my eye started hurting
One night after I had gone swimming, my eye started hurting. I just ignored it, thinking it was nothing. As the night wore on, the pain increased. I thought of asking my brother for help—to pray with me—since my parents were out. But as I started for the door to his room, I decided against it, because I wanted to heal myself.
Being a Christian Scientist, I knew what I had to do. I said the Lord's Prayer, with its spiritual interpretation by Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health, p. 16). One part is:
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June 5, 1978 issue
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Loving the family
ELIZABETH W. GOAZIOU
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Are we tending to our own affairs?
Esther M. Scheck Peterson
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Rejoicing before the rain
BEVERLY ANN HAWLEY
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Purification
Barbara Dix Henderson
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Taking the fear out of difference
JOHN LEWIS SELOVER
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Healing through the light of Truth
HAZEL TERESA COOK
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Curbing pornography
GRANT C. BUTLER
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A gift to a child
MARJORIE B. McKIBBIN
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She kept on praying
Carole Ernest Shank
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In gratitude for God's mercy
Naomi Price
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The public practice of Christian Science—for you?
Nathan A. Talbot
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Unfeigned love
Lowell N. Cannon
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College would have been a catastrophe for me without the...
Karen Rynearson
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I often look back with deep gratitude for my family's affirmative...
Clifford Kapps Eriksen
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Growing up as a regular pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School,...
Susan Newbold Smith with contributions from Philip L. Smith
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Letters to the Press
with contributions from Samuel R. Williams