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The fall of 1833 found me with my mother's family and...
The fall of 1833 found me with my mother's family and others, camped within the borders of Texas, of which we had just become citizens. Texas was then a wilderness, inhabited by roaming, hostile Indians.
I was a refugee in 1836, fleeing from home before the army of Santa Anna. Of the pioneers who enlisted under the flag of the Lone Star to battle for freedom, I am one of the few now living to testify to former conditions. After seventy years sojourn in my adopted state, I became again a refugee, fleeing from a merciless foe—ill health—to the standard of Christian Science to battle for right against wrong, for truth against error, for God and His demonstrated power.
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Only a few years since, Mrs. Eddy startled the world with this new philosophy, this new Science of God, infinite Mind, an ever-present help to those who seek aright, and I am proud to say that I am again a pioneer and have demonstrated this fact of God's healing presence to my entire satisfaction.
My husband being a physician, I naturally had all confidence in medicine. It gradually failed me, however, and I became a physical wreck. I suffered intensely for a year with muscular rheumatism and other ills. Life was a burden and I was hopeless.
Meantime this new star of Christian Science had appeared, leading all who were willing to a haven of rest. I was healed through the ministry of a Christian Science practitioner, and my heart is filled with gratitude to her and to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and most of all to the ever-present God, who "healeth our diseases" and reveals to us the Christ-truth.
I am a member of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of Houston, Tex., the only church with which I have affiliated in fifty years.
I write this testimony hoping that some forlorn and shipwrecked brother, seeing it, may take heart again.
MRS. ANSON JONES, Houston, Tex.

November 7, 1903 issue
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Christian Scientists Deny Certain Reports
with contributions from GEORGE S. BAKER, MARY HATCH HARRISON
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Health and Disease
A. PHYSICIAN
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"Thy Will Be Done"
J. R. MOSLEY
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Perfection
A. C. G.
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Among the Churches
with contributions from JOHN E. PLAYTER
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The Lectures
with contributions from J. C. Haynes, E. A. Agard, Law , M. B. Rosenberry
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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Card
MARY BAKER G. EDDY
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An Optimistic View
Editor
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The Ladies' Home Journal
Oscar L. Stevens with contributions from T. E. Marr
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A Letter to our Leader
with contributions from EMMA E. FISKE, JOHN S. HATCH, CHARLES A. FISKE, L. H. WHITHAM, EDWARD E. NORWOOD, G. W. DUFFUS, WILLIAM M. WOOD, ROSE BARNWELL NORWOOD
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To a Waterfowl
W. C. BRYANT
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I have just been reading a testimony in the Sentinel of...
GRACE SCRAFFORD VOORHEES
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Thirteen years last April I first heard of Christian Science,...
ELLA SMITH with contributions from MARY McCAFFERTY
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Believing that our experience and healing in Christian Science...
BERNARD HENRY KRAMER, JR.
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Wishing to acknowledge some of the benefits I have received...
C. F. S. with contributions from SARA D. PRICE
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The Dewdrop
JOHN W. FLAGG with contributions from PHILIP SIDNEY
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From our Exchanges
with contributions from A. S. COATS, CELIA PARKER WOOLEY, GEO. T. ANGELL
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Notices
with contributions from STEPHEN A. CHASE