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My mother was a Christian Scientist before I was born, and I...
My mother was a Christian Scientist before I was born, and I attended a Christian Science Sunday School as a child. I rejoice now in that wonderful background; but for a number of years in early adulthood I turned away from this Science. I had entered a profession in which, despite my faithful service and hard work, the pressures proved to be intolerable. The result was a complete nervous and emotional breakdown. I left home and job and went to the Green Mountains to be with relatives. They were very kind but were unable to help me. Nor could the doctor or the psychiatrist whom I consulted help me.
Finally I wrote a Christian Science practitioner who had taught a friend of mine in Sunday School. She agreed to pray for me, and my healing began. It was a very slow healing, for I had many erroneous concepts to unlearn. I sent for the Bible, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and the Christian Science Quarterly and began to read the Bible Lesson every day. My sufferings, which had tempted me to commit suicide, began to recede with the prayerful treatment, and as the practitioner's wonderful letters, full of the truths of scientific being, arrived every few days to encourage me. My replies to those letters, she told me, showed constant spiritual growth.

August 7, 1978 issue
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What about miracles?
WILLIAM MILFORD CORRELL
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Life is not too short
ZERA HOLLAND BLUMENSTEIN
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Angels are for real
ARTHUR N. LORIG
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Christ, Truth, destroys the works of the devil
RICHARD CLAUDE HAW
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Dis-illusionment with evil: a divine incentive
Esther M. Scheck Peterson
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You are not outside the wall
JENIFER CAROL WECHSLER
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Secure in God
GAY BRYANT
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The fantasy fallacy
Nathan A. Talbot
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Models we can trust
Naomi Price
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Don't let the static fool you!
Susan M. Schmeltz
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I have had a wonderful healing solely by reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures...
Gertrud Tessky
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Two summers ago my wife, our son, and I were shown wonderfully...
R. Geoffrey D. Welch
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Deep gratitude to God for Christ Jesus, the Way -shower, and...
Grace Marie Reineman
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My mother was a Christian Scientist before I was born, and I...
Louise Avery Child
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In 1964 I was preparing to serve as an interpreter at the...
Eleanor Shipman Miner with contributions from Winfred R. Miner