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Inspired thought invigorates—and heals
We were sitting at a banquet table at an embassy dinner in Washington, DC. As the toasts began, one of the honored guests across the table suddenly slumped in his chair and drifted toward unconsciousness. The ambassador asked that 911 and an ambulance be called. Knowing I was a Christian Scientist, the guest’s wife turned to me for help.
I rose and went around the table. I leaned close to this person and began speaking quietly to him. In Christian Science I’d learned that life is a reflection of God’s being, spiritually derived, not based in matter or a reaction to material conditions. I repeated truths that I knew he, also a Christian Scientist, would know, including “the scientific statement of being” by Mary Baker Eddy, found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual” (p. 468).

November 3, 2014 issue
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Letters
Sentinel staff
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Inspired thought invigorates—and heals
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
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Expectancy of daily good from God
Kathleen Chicoine
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He leadeth me beside the still waters
Photograph by Peter B. Anderson
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What is man’s true nature?
Madelon Maupin
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Thank you, God
Netta Thackery
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God’s care while scuba diving
Juno Enoch
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Healing of back strain
Lindsey Biggs
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Our pet’s healing
Cheryl Richardson
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No more hip injury
Dorothy Hobbs
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Knowing who we are
David C. Kennedy