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Late in 1993 I woke one morning with much pain in one big...
Late in 1993 I woke one morning with much pain in one big toe. Immediately I prayed. There is no sensation in matter, I reasoned, because spiritual truth denies such a possibility. The condition did not improve, but I had no fear whatsoever that healing would not come. Later I decided to cancel an appointment in a town some distance away.
The person I was to visit, a longtime friend who is also a Christian Science practitioner, sensed something was not right. We discussed on the telephone the possibility of her praying for me, and agreed that she would begin to do so.
The difficulty continued for a couple of days, and I found myself hobbling around and confined to the house. Then the other big toe assumed the same symptoms, and even getting to the bathroom was a struggle. Still I stuck to the prayer I had taken up, and trusted that I would overcome this problem through spiritual understanding.
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August 14, 1995 issue
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Overcoming the "conspiracy" of age
Margaret Coleman Brown Poyser
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If helping seems a burden
James Marshall Fabian
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We have never been out of God's loving care
Betty Elaine Rose
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Dear Sentinel
with contributions from Kath Cochran, Alisa Cochran, Bob Leigh
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Praying for the world
Betty Beal Metzler
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"... the beauty of holiness"
Takashi Oka
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Moved on, not laid off
Richard A. Pearson
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The Christian Science Reading Room: an amazing place
Joyce K. Marin
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Why keep on forgiving?
Louis Edmund Benjamin
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"Who teacheth like him?"*
Louise Clarke Harsch
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When action needs to be taken, what action?
Russ Gerber
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Things that are forever
Mary Metzner Trammell
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When I was nineteen I became involved with a man in a relationship...
Laura C. Foskett-Ely