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Don't take your life—give it
I once considered taking my own life. Thanks to Christian Science, I found good reasons not to.
I was nineteen and a college sophomore suffering all the misery so many people associate with being a teen-ager. Though I had been raised in the Christian Science Sunday School and exposed to the truth that man's identity is the reflection of a perfect God, I felt worthless and wanted to commit suicide. Why?

August 13, 1979 issue
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Praying from the standpoint of intelligence
MARY LLOYD MILLS
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Who is in the driver's seat?
EDNA MAY EVANS WHITE
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No start, no finish
Rosemary Cobham
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Christian Science and masculinity
Written for the Sentinel
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The past has no hold
FEROL AUSTEN
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The "what" and "how" of Christian Science
Geoffrey I. Barratt
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Understanding that renews the body
Naomi Price
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Don't take your life—give it
Written for the Sentinel
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A question of oneness
Silvia Brum
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Higher standards—better friendships
Susan Gay Terrell
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In my late teens I was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown...
April Gilmore with contributions from Amelia Gilmore
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One time, during my teen years, the open truck in which I...
Robert C. Braman
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Over a period of eighteen years, a solid spiritual foundation...
Christina Elizabeth Bentinck
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Once when my brother and I were playing a long time ago, I...
Dan Marion Gibson with contributions from Frances M. Gibson, Marguerite W. Nelson