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The Sunday School gift
When I was just about to turn 20, I went home on leave from the military and had my last Christian Science Sunday School class with my favorite teacher. Mr. D. was a businessman and dad—he had a son named Bruce, and we got along great from our first class together when I was in high school. At the end of that last class with Mr. D., he said he “expected great things” from me and challenged me to become a Sunday School teacher and church member.
Just as I was about to leave, he handed me a slip of paper. He mentioned that I might want to consider taking Christian Science class instruction and wrote down the name of a teacher with whom I could talk about it. I stuffed the piece of paper in my wallet and really didn’t pay much attention to it, except I did read the name he had written down.
A year later, I graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point, became an artillery officer, and completed the Army’s Airborne and Ranger schools. After tours of duty with the 82nd Airborne in North Carolina, the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam, and the 4th Infantry in Colorado, I left the military to go to graduate school in business.
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October 7, 2013 issue
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Letters
Annie, Diane, Robin Pryor Blake, Graham Watson, Anna Willis
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The final word
Elizabeth Kellogg
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Real estate realizations
Kate Colby
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A 'do-it-yourself' project
Cate Vincent
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Prayer for healing in Morocco
Shannon A. Horst
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Finding rest
Brian Kissock
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Wake up to joyous reality
Nancy Fischer
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The Sunday School gift
Bruce Richardson
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My 24/7 pastor
Niklas Peschke
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Farm dog quickly healed
Debby Miller
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Keeping company with angels
Janet Bland
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Pain gives way to Truth
Thomas C. Blair
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Neurovegetative disorder healed
Maria Celisa Cesar Martins
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The energy of creation
The Editors