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Although for many years I had accepted Christian Science...
Although for many years I had accepted Christian Science as true and logical, at a time when I found myself suffering physically I unwittingly believed suffering to be real and powerful. Above all else I longed to be healed of the physical discomfort. The condition was that of small ulcers on one leg. During the course of a year I requested help periodically from a Christian Science practitioner and received some relief, but never during that year was I completely free of the problem.
The practitioner recommended numerous citations to study from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I was told that studying these references would help me to know myself through a better understanding of God, but that was not exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be free of the ulcers, and it seemed that the citations were little more than something to take my mind off a sore leg. I had yet to learn that in Christian Science the role of a patient is an active not a passive one.

June 8, 1981 issue
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Color the grass green and the sky blue
GUERNSEY LE PELLEY
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I am free
SUEN-SZU HUANG
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Do circumstances have a victim?
GEORGE E. J. MAHON
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Freedom
KATHRYN LANEY VEAZEY
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Comforting, guarding, guiding
FRANKIE L. THOMAS
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We can do more than just cope
JENNIFER S. YOUNGMAN
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What is—not what if?
ALEXANDER H. SWAN
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This way to paradise
JOHN L. SALLINGER III
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"... a clearing up of abstractions"
DeWITT JOHN
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"How can I better serve?"
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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God is with us, always
Kerstin Geier
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Although for many years I had accepted Christian Science...
JOHN LINDSAY RENNIE
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Many years ago, after my graduation from a three-year vocational...
LOUISE G. BADGER
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Today I played golf!—the final proof that a complete healing...
MARJORIE HARTUNG MYERS