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Christian Science came into my life at a time of great need
Christian Science came into my life at a time of great need. I lived in a small town where I was known as the walking skeleton. Finally my husband became so alarmed that he took me to an adjoining town to see a doctor. The doctor told me I had an inward goiter. He said I would require an operation, but that he could not undertake it. A specialist would have to be brought in from a city some distance away. I was in despair, for I had two small children; times were hard, and we could not afford the expense.
A newcomer to our town came to me and told me I could be healed by the power of God, understood in Christian Science. I was desperate, and she was most kind, so I started to read with her the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly. We met once a week. These visits became a great source of joy to me. My thought turned from despair to hope, and in a few months I was perfectly well. I was on the mountaintop of joy!
Several years later I was afflicted as the woman in the Bible (see Luke 8:43-48). I thought it was something I would have to endure. I was active in an organization of rural women and was asked to attend a meeting in another province, but I felt I could not go for I was hemorrhaging. My dear friend offered to pray for me and firmly insisted that I get ready and take the trip. I was encouraged to go, and by the time I arrived at my destination I was perfectly well. The condition never returned.
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July 17, 1978 issue
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Teen-agers and the moral law
LACY BELL RICHTER
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Not healed yet? Gratitude is essential!
PAULA BUSBY GORALCZYK
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Substance versus symbols
LOWELL N. CANNON
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"Get thee behind me," sleep!
Paul Douglas White
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Do we use Christian Science?
OLIVE HALL SHADGETT
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Only one cause: God
LEONARD E. MENDEZ
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Newness now
Barbara Dix Henderson
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The clear-cut separateness of evil
GRACE HOUGH CARTER
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Learning to love all mankind
Naomi Price
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Tempering extreme attitudes
Nathan A. Talbot
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Oneness
Alan A. Aylwin
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Free as a sunbeam
M. Jane Watts
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Shining light
Dorothy Huntington
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I will never cease to be grateful for the tremendous spiritual...
Nelson Jack Saunders
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Christian Science came into my life at a time of great need
Stella E. Welch
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How grateful I am to the individual who many years ago introduced...
Lucille R. Leyerle with contributions from Mette G. Wright