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Prayer brings renewal and regeneration
I attended a Christian Science Sunday School for several years. But at the age of fifteen or sixteen, I decided that Christian Science was a lot of nonsense and that modern psychology and other intellectual subjects were more liberating. By the age of twenty-two or so, however, I found my life in ruins. I was unemployed, had wasted all the fine scholarly talents I was once thought to possess, had lost all my friends, and was the despair of my parents. I was, in fact, thoroughly miserable. Worse than this, I had come to the conclusion that there was something deeply wrong with me. I believed that I was spiritually sick.
As this conviction grew on me, I gave way to despair and began to contemplate suicide, but the thought of the misery that this would inflict on my mother kept me from it. Yet the more I searched my mind trying to find out what was wrong with it, the more I found nothing there. This reminded me of what I had been taught in Sunday School—that there was no mortal or human mind. I began to wonder if Christian Science might not have the answers, after all.

September 7, 1998 issue
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To Our Readers
Russ Gerber
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Henry G. Rutledge, Frances G. Mitchell
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items of interest
with contributions from Charlie Ward, Dean Ornish, Tim Stafford
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Pleasure-seeking? Or finding real happiness?
By Richard C. Bergenheim
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Defeating the whisperers
Becky S. Lovich
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Doing what you're made to do
By Charlene Ann Beck
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HOW I WAS LED TO EXUBERANT LIFE
Trudy C. Palmer
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You can quit smoking
By Erik Tomas Carlson
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Clean windows make the difference
By Mabel Brennan Fisher
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Refuse to be jealous
By Tony Lobl
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Truly beautiful you
Barbara Shutt Wallace
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God
Nicci Geschke
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Freedom from smoking
Shelley F. Randolph
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Prayer brings renewal and regeneration
Sinclair Atkins
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Child healed through his own prayers
Michael Morgan with contributions from Marsha L. Maupin
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Pain and severe cough healed spiritually
Betty Reiss
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Keep your eye on the ball
By Steve Summerlin
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Boys, crime, and the power of right desire
Margaret Rogers