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On a campout last summer, I began to have some internal...
On a campout last summer, I began to have some internal trouble. After nine days of no bowel movement, I got scared. I thought of purchasing a laxative, but as I walked to the camp store, I passed a telephone. I stopped and thought quietly, realizing I had a choice. I decided to call a Christian Science practitioner to ask for treatment.
Although the practitioner didn't know me very well, and didn't know of my whereabouts, she was completely prepared for my call, so quickly did she reply. She quoted a line from a hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal: "Thy kingdom, God, within / Shows forth Love's sweet control" (No. 221). After this call there was some relief, so I continued calling daily.
In one of my phone conversations from the campground, the practitioner spoke of the two words freshness and sunshine. They are in an article in Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, where she asks, "Are we feeling the vernal freshness and sunshine of enlightened faith?" (p. 343). The practitioner mentioned that she had been studying these two words and using a dictionary to uncover further synonyms of the words.
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November 3, 1997 issue
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TO OUR READERS
The Editors
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Exploring the Key to the Scriptures
Rosalie E. Dunbar
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Resurrection
Mary Baker Eddy
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Prayer, binding the power of pain
Michelle Boccanfuso
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Breaking barriers
Marta Greenwood
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Redeem the past and go forward
Robert W. Timm
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God hears our prayer
Anna Kathleen Tunnicliff
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God's gentle presence heals
Lynn G. Jackson
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Grief dissolved with love
Tony Lobl
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Lifted above the flood
Brenda Edith Flint
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Penniless, I watched God supply our need
Edward Daryl Francis
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"And I will restore to you the years..."*
Susan M. Schmeltz
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Prayer for good government
Joyce E. Boshler
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL
The Editors
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The presence of all that is good
William E. Moody
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For five generations our family has known and practiced Christian Science...
Dorette Kreutziger
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While serving in the military, I experienced a severe sunburn
Henry G. Rutledge, Jr.
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On a campout last summer, I began to have some internal...
Elizabeth J. Barber