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Nature under control
How to live peaceably—and safely—with nature
EVENTUALLY WE'LL DISCOVER IT IS GOD'S UNIVERSE.
MY WIFE, MARGIE, and I were on our knees one evening. No, it wasn't a religious experience. We were in some bushes up a mountain, checking our repair work on a cistern. We store water there that keeps the lawn green around our house a half-mile below.
Suddenly Margie touched my arm. I glanced at her and then followed her eyes to a few inches away where a large rattlesnake was coiled and ready to strike. Incredibly, we hadn't seen him when we first knelt there. We quietly and very gradually backed away.
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March 29, 1999 issue
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To Our Readers
William E. Moody
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Elizabeth Harned, Ron Kelley, Henry Rutledge
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items of interest
with contributions from Lawrence Fagg
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Nature under control
By Nathan A. Talbot
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Where your treasure is*
Garnet Bruce Coburn
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"Thank you, Father"
By Earline Shoemake
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Whose desires come first?
By Elizabeth Ward Beall
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Easter gladness, not sadness
By Beverly Goldsmith
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God's law—sustaining you for eternity
By Mark Swinney
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The many sounds of music
By Kim Shippey
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Seven women who changed history
By Lynne Bundesen
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Severe pain and weight loss healed
Connie Hays Coddington
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Prayer heals cold, eliminates pain
Trudy Herrington
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Multiple injuries from car accident healed
Lydie Louise Demott Orr
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Protection for a prisoner of war
A. Donald Swanson
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Raising children? God has already paid the bill
By Laura Matthews
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More than random acts
Russ Gerber
