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My family has always been interested in Christian Science
My family has always been interested in Christian Science. As soon as I was old enough to leave the nursery at our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, my parents enrolled me in the Sunday School there. I attended Sunday School until the age of twenty and had many healings of various illnesses.
While I was going through high school and during two years of college, I participated in athletics as a swimmer. Each workout and every swim meet provided me with the opportunity to prove what I was learning in Sunday School about God and myself as His image and likeness, man. I spent many hours a week in prayer, acknowledging the unlimited strength and endurance that man naturally derives from God. I also endeavored to understand that time and its limitations do not exist in God's kingdom.
As a swimmer I swam in the distance events. One statement that I worked with more than any other is from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 254): "Individuals are consistent who, watching and praying, can 'run, and not be weary; . . . walk, and not faint,' who gain good rapidly and hold their position, or attain slowly and yield not to discouragement." As a distance swimmer I had to express consistency and limitless energy. I watched and prayed regularly to see that man does express these qualities, and that because of this, man is unlimited.
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November 1, 1982 issue
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Faith under fire
MARGARET JESSIE JACOBS
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Shouldering government
GAY BRYANT
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Spiritual independence . . .
SHARON SLATON HOWELL
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The talent
SVEN ELDRING
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Good is now
WALTER CARTER BUTLER
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Could I?
MARY GUINN MEYER
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The good ship Harmony
ALBERT ASHWORTH, JR.
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Lost and found: on the road
THOMAS ALAN WALDMAN
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Healing through Love, the universal solvent
DeWITT JOHN
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United roles for parent and child
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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A new kind of strength
Helen L. Connelly
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Omnipresence
Krista Noel Spear
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Although my parents never became members of...
MARJORIE BUELOW HALE
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How can I put into words what Christian Science means to me?...
ELIZABETH FRIEDRICHS HAMBRIGHT
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An experience I had about three years ago shows how, through...
BEULAH M. BEUTEL
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My family has always been interested in Christian Science
ANTHONY WHITMORE