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When I was between the ages of six and eight, I attended a...
When I was between the ages of six and eight, I attended a Christian Science Sunday School. As a teenager I occasionally attended or a lecture. Christian Science wasn't discussed in our home, and we didn't read the Lesson. I started smoking and drinking—I was seeking something, but didn't know what.
When I was about thirty, something was not right with my body, though I could not define just what the trouble was. I had been sickly all my life. One night I reached out to God, and gradually remembered "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health and the Lord's Prayer. I had learned these in Sunday School, and I clung to them for several hours. That night I was actually healed of drinking. Although I had been on the verge of alcoholism, my desire for alcohol was permanently gone.
Doctors told me my body was rejecting medicine that had been prescribed for my illness. I stopped taking it, and told my husband I wanted Christian Science treatment, which was all right with him. I called a practitioner on a Saturday and she began to pray for me. I also began to read Science and Health.
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June 27, 1994 issue
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Homeless? Absolutely not!
Judith Wiltshire-Marshall
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Inviolate being
Barbara L. Kelly
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Give them your light, not your oil
C. Paulette Fredrick Skinner
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Dear Sentinel
with contributions from Philip
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The kingdom of heaven within us
Andrej J. Remec
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Have you been to paradise?
Judith Grace Schmidt
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Overflowing love that meets all needs
Gloria Delroy
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Second Thought
Tom Harpur
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Notices
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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The patience to know God's will in "our restless and crazy time"
William E. Moody
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The story we love to tell
Mary Metzner Trammell
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My parents gave their family a great inheritance
Christy Jeanne Byrd Milburn with contributions from Tamara Anne Milburn Morris
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I am grateful for spiritual progress
Tshiala Lumbadila
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When I was between the ages of six and eight, I attended a...
Beatrice Muehlemeyer