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The understanding of God destroys fear
Pipes were clanging in the basement of our remote mountain home. Something had to be done quickly, but what? I was alone and scared. Earlier, when the weather turned cold, I had telephoned my husband in the city for instructions to switch over our bucket-a-day coal furnace (which heated our water in warm weather) to the central heating system. There were valves to be closed and others to be opened before I could build a fire in the major furnace. I thought I had taken all needful steps, but apparently I hadn't. Steam was building up. Explosion seemed imminent unless the steam was released.
I called my husband again and reviewed my procedure with the valves. Visualizing at once the one I had neglected, he said, "You missed the safety valve, the one on top of the highest pipe. Go down and open it." Terrified at the thought, I said, "Go down in that basement? I can't. I'm too scared."

July 4, 1983 issue
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"The joy that none can take away"
STEPHEN GOTTSCHALK
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Defeating defeatism
MARJORY S. M. CERN
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After Peniel
PHYLLIS STODDARD
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Man's present freedom
RUTH MARIE BOYD HEIN
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Refuse the talking serpent
DOROTHY A. J. WOODRUFF
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Living eternal life
EXA GREENWALT
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The understanding of God destroys fear
THELMA SHIPMAN SCHROEDER
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Guided to supply
ELIZABETH BEAM
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"First lessons" in moral and spiritual law (Part III)
JON GIB HARDER
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A home for the homeless
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The greatest freedom we can ever know
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A true story for Tricia
Dorothy Harris
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"O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou...
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Shortly after taking up the study of Christian Science, I had an...
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One day many years ago I was doing the laundry, using a...
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