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The work of the healer in Christian Science is to acknowledge...
The work of the healer in Christian Science is to acknowledge God's perfect creation, and to recognize clearly, as Christ Jesus did, the perfect, healthy, wholly spiritual man of God's creation as the only truth of our being. Even a glimpse of this reality is sufficient to transform the thought of the patient and restore him to active health.
For more than eighty years, first my parents and then I have relied on God to meet my every need. So, when one morning I woke in great pain and lower body functions were not performing normally, I promptly called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. The pain and fear had so obscured my thought that I was unable to pray effectively for myself. But I did catch hold of snatches of the Lord's Prayer, the "Daily Prayer" (from the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy), "the scientific statement of being" (from Science and Health), and the twenty-third Psalm. These familiar passages comforted and encouraged me, but it was soon apparent that I needed more care than could be provided at home. Arrangements were made for me to be admitted to a Christian Science care facility.
As I was wheeled into the facility I could literally feel the love and support of the nurses and staff, and the first hint of hope for my survival dawned. For several days the Christian Science nurses cared for me lovingly and efficiently. The practitioner patiently continued to pray to enable me to discern myself as a child of God's creating and to yield up all belief in a power opposed to God that could cause me to be sick. She knew that God is All, and all-powerful, and that this knowledge precludes the existence of any other power, precludes any error, precludes any matter that could be sick.
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June 3, 1996 issue
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A church without creeds
Beulah M. Roegge
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Prayer for a church meeting
Dale Ashley Bryant
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Church work: its impact on our lives
From a church member
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More than a snippet of truth required
Judith Hardy Olson
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Does it take a strong ego?
Evelyn M. S. Duckett
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God's message
Catherine S. Anderson
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Sharing Science and Health for the first time
Kathryn Peterson
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Dear Sentinel,
with contributions from Britsy Bruland, Jody Hannibal, Tamara Rose Straw, Nicole Lynn Thompson, Heather Susan Tyks, Gale Bentley Soquel
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Related by Love—not blood
Gloria Delroy
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Music in church life
by Kim Shippey
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Church—bringing peace to the community
Russ Gerber
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My first testimony appeared over twenty years ago
Sandra Matthes Vukov
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The importance to me of beginning each new day by prayerfully...
Karenlee Raitt Mannerino
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The work of the healer in Christian Science is to acknowledge...
Forbes Smith Robertson
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In May of last year my husband of over thirty-five years passed...
Nancy Barrett Schlegel
