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Learning that Life is eternal
Just before I turned 15, my brother, Richard (Dick), joined the army. This was in 1967 during the Vietnam War. When it seemed likely that he would be sent to Vietnam, my mother decided it was time for the family to go back to church. Until then, we hadn’t attended any church regularly, though I have vague recollections of attending a church at Easter and Christmas.
This time, my mom picked First Church of Christ, Scientist, the Christian Science church near us. She chose the Christian Science church for the simple reason that my grandmother’s cousin, who lived in another country, was a Christian Scientist and my mom liked her.
So Mom began attending Christian Science church services as I started in the Sunday School. I liked it right away. I was impressed with the way Christian Science explains how Jesus’ healings and teachings are relevant today and for all time. I remember having a Sunday School class about logic. We started with the premises from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy that God exists, God is All, and God is good. Then we came to the conclusion that all that really exists must be included in God and His creation, and that all must be good. From this it follows that evil (anything that is the opposite of God or not included in God) cannot really exist.
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August 3, 2015 issue
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Letters
LittleChild, BarbaranMaine, Bruce Armstrong
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Mother-love—everywhere and always
Pam DeBolt
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Praying daily with The Christian Science Monitor
Keith S. Collins
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The oneness of God casts out evil
George Reed
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He that has made my heaven secure
Photograph by Patti Hickey
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Learning that Life is eternal
Jenny Myers
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‘Gather out the stones’
Kathryn Knox
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Abdominal pain ends
Monique Dupré
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Normal breathing restored
Richard Ward, Susan Jostyn
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Pneumonia healed
Kathleen Tasa
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Why progress endures
John Yemma
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Progress and underlying perfection
Jenny Sawyer
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Fitted to be a healer
Lyle Young