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"I
had found that for which I had sought"
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It
was not chance which led us to
Kansas to live beside a Christian
Scientist. I was bitterly
prejudiced, but I watched;
questions came, and I began to
wonder. Months passed, the
watching continued, the questions
multiplied, the wonder grew till,
unable to contain them longer, I
stopped the lady one day as she
was passing through my yard and
put this abrupt question: "Won't
you tell me, please, what
Christian Science is?" The
children had a sandpile under an
apple tree, and we sat down there
just as little children do, and
she explained, while I
questioned. As we talked my heart
burned within me as the hearts of
the apostles burned within them
on the walk to Emmaus. My star of
Bethlehem rose directly overhead,
a great light shone about me; the
Christ was revealed; I had found
that for which I had sought. I
had never thought of physical
healing; nevertheless it came in
that hour, and it was a perfect
healing.
Mary
Fritz
Christian Science Sentinel
May 24, 1919
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"Your
divine
rights"
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My
first illumination came when
reading our textbook. It was as
clear as someone speaking to me.
"I hope, dear reader, I am
leading you into the
understanding of your divine
rights" (p. 253). From childhood
I had been taught to believe
the Bible. But I now saw that all
my former laws of life and health
had come from physiology, not
from the Bible. It was
unbelievable; and worse still,
the whole world was duped just as
I had been.
Dr.
Corinne
Larimore
Christian Science
Sentinel
September 5, 1925
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Many
Healings
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I
experienced many healings after
the belief of mind in matter had
been conquered. Severe heart
trouble, creeping paralysis,
headaches, and a cough that gave
me no rest day or night
disappeared. The family physician
had given me many warnings about
my condition, but I have been
entirely free from these ailments
for several years.
Harriett
W. Wilson
Christian
Science Sentinel
February 22, 1919
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"I
now see light, and love
everyone."
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Whereas
before I could see nothing but
darkness and in every person an
enemy, I now see light, and love
everyone. I am very grateful for
the spiritual uplift which
Christian Science has given
me.
Mathilde
Stein
Christian
Science Sentinel
August 9, 1919
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Healing
in Christian
Science
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I
had class instruction from one of
Mrs. Eddy's loyal students. This
dear teacher asked what I thought
about the healing in Christian
Science. I replied, thinking of
the healing in Jesus' time, that
I should not be surprised to be
perfectly healed in a moment. She
explained so simply and clearly
the truth about the God of love
who sends no sickness, sin, or
death that I accepted it at once
and was healed of a most severe
trouble. Very soon I was able to
help myself and others with this
truth.
Harriet
C. Foss
Christian
Science Sentinel
November 22, 1924
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"As
taught by
Mrs.
Eddy"
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My
daily desire and prayer is to
become a better man, and to
reflect love to everyone I come
in contact with. I can only
express my thanks to Christian
Science by living closer to its
teachings, as taught by Mrs.
Eddy.
William
F. Jens
Christian Science
Sentinel
November 15, 1919
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"What
Life really
is"
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It
is my privilege to be learning
something of what Life really is.
Looking forward to each new day
and anticipating its
opportunities to learn, to serve,
to give, is joy unspeakable. I am
indeed "Grateful beyond the power
of speech; / Grateful for
Spirit's infinite reach; /
Grateful that all Life's lessons
teach
—
/ At-one-ment with our
Father-Mother God."
Mabelle
B. Wilson
Christian Science
Sentinel
January 23, 1926
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Healing - Reformation -
Transformation
Christian
Science Testimonies
S - Z
". . . The
prayer of faith shall save the sick . . ." St.
James
The following testimonies are from early issues
of The Christian Science Journal and
Sentinel.
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SAFETY
IN A
HURRICANE
"The
noise of the wind and the rain
and the crashing of parts of the
neighbors' houses was terrific,
but all through the storm I
closed my eyes to all material
sense testimony as well as I
could, knowing that there is no
other power or presence than
God."
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SAVED
BY DIVINE
LOVE
"I called to him that we were
going out to sea, but struggle as
we would we could not get
back."
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SEASICKNESS
HEALED
"I went up on deck, but it was so
rough it was impossible to do
much walking. Very few persons
were out, and I heard them
talking about the number that
were ill."
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SEVERE
INJURIES
HEALED
"I realize that it was only by a
'closer walk with God' that Mrs.
Eddy was able to bring to
darkened, suffering humanity this
wonderful spiritual and physical
healing — the Christ-cure
with its benign influence which
is ever ready waiting for
'whosoever will.'"
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SEVERE
SICKNESS
HEALED
"The next day I had the
examination; and if I live to be
a thousand years old, I shall
never forget the scare this
doctor gave me."
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"SHE
NEVER
FELL"
"I was getting ready to go to the
morning service, and my little
daughter, five years old, was
playing about, when suddenly I
felt a silence. I instantly
noticed that the child was no
longer there and that the window
was open."
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SICKNESS
HEALED
"A few months ago my little girl
was taken with a very heavy cold
and distress through the body. I
called for help about noon, and
the condition continued to be the
same until about eleven o'clock
that night, when she was
apparently very much
worse."
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SICKNESS,
HEALING
OF
"One Thursday afternoon our
little son, aged three, came to
me complaining of his stomach and
told me to ask God to heal
him."
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SKEPTIC
CONVERTED
".
. . I was educated very strictly
and carefully in the religious
thought of the established
church, and up to about
twenty-three I had never felt the
slightest doubt as to its
doctrines being the whole and
only truth."
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SKIN
DISEASE
HEALED
"After two years of struggle the
valuable lesson was brought home
to me that not only must we think
the truth and speak the truth,
but we must also act from that
basis only."
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SKIN
DISEASE
HEALED
"A year ago last May, while
living in Miami, Florida, I
contracted what is known there as
Cuban itch, a terrible skin
affliction."
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SKIN
DISEASE
HEALED
"To those who have any doubts
that God does heal through
Christian Science, I would like
to say that the disease of which
I was cured was called by the
doctors 'lupus,' which they
pronounced practically incurable
and a very terrible
disease."
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FREED
FROM
SMOKING
"One day after dinner I sat down
to enjoy the reading of a
Christian Science lecture, jammed
my pipe full of tobacco, lighted
it, and was all fixed for a real
good time."
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SMOKING
HABIT
HEALED
"Being born in a southern state I
was reared among a family of
tobacco smokers, and it seemed as
natural to use tobacco as it was
to drink water."
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"SOMETHING
WONDERFUL"
"Although from childhood I had
always thought of God as Spirit,
I lacked the true recognition of
infinite Spirit which began to
awaken me from the material dream
to the real spiritual being of
man."
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SPINAL
MENINGITIS
HEALED
"Everything humanly possible was
done to gain relief, but without
result. For several days the
report was passed around the
hospital that she could not live
throughout the day."
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SPIRITUAL
AWAKENING
"For ten years I suffered from
neuralgia in the head, and from
other ailments so serious that I
was obliged to submit to two
operations, and in October, 1911,
my doctor said he thought another
operation was
necessary."
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SPIRITUAL
ENLIGHTENMENT BRINGS
HEALING
"About sixteen years ago a friend
gave me a copy of 'Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures' by Mrs. Eddy, also
some Sentinels and
Journals to read, and
after reading for about six weeks
I found myself healed . .
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SPIRITUAL
LIBERATION
"When three of my acquaintances
were healed of so-called
incurable diseases by one who had
been Mrs. Eddy's pupil, I said,
'There is an understanding of God
that I do not know anything
about,' — and how I wished I
had that
understanding."
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STOMACH
DISORDER
HEALED
"The practitioner talked with me
for about an hour, and at the end
of that time I knew that what I
had been hearing was the truth,
because it was logical, and it
was the first time I had ever
heard anything about God that I
thought was logical."
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STOMACH
TROUBLE
HEALED
"I was treated by the best
physicians, with no results; also
consulted a specialist, who
pronounced it the worst case of
perforation and ulceration of the
stomach under his observation,
and gave no hope."
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A
STORM
STILLED
"Several years ago an earnest
student of the Bible and the
Christian Science textbook
witnessed a scene where sudden
tempest seemed imminent, and
there appeared to be great
danger."
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HEALING
OF INTENSE
SUFFERING
"For
the benefit of those who think it
impossible to be healed of
disease by reading Christian
Science, I wish to state my
experience."
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SURE
OF GOD'S PRESENCE AND
POWER
". . . Truth requires absolute
truthfulness and honesty; Life
expresses itself in a spiritual
understanding which is
indestructible, and Love knows no
man but the image and likeness of
God."
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HEALING
OF DISCORDANT
TEETH
"I had searched for truth in
orthodox churches till I was
'weary and heavy laden.' I worked
in one church thirteen years, and
from that went to a mission that
believed in faith healing, but
was not satisfied, and still kept
on asking for light."
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PAINLESS
EXTRACTION OF
TEETH
"From childhood I have suffered
from decayed teeth and toothache,
until it finally became necessary
to have most of my teeth
extracted."
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TEMPTATIONS
OVERCOME
"I did not take up Science for
physical healing as much as for
the overcoming of
sin."
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THANKFUL
FOR
HEALING
"I am deeply grateful for
Christian Science, as discovered
and taught by Mrs. Eddy, and I
thank God that I am
well."
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"THAT
GLORIOUS DAY OF MY
HEALING"
"How many times during these
seven years, at some period of
depression and discouragement, I
have retired to my room in
meditation, recollecting that
glorious day of my healing; and
in thanking God for Christian
Science I would be healed
again."
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THROAT
DISEASE
HEALED
"From
my earliest recollection I
suffered more or less from a
throat affection, and each attack
seemed worse than the preceding
one, until I lived in constant
fear."
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THROAT
PROBLEM
HEALED
"When I first heard that, in
Christian Science, healing was
being done as in Jesus' time, I
wanted to look into the
subject."
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"THROUGH
CLOUDS TO
SUNSHINE"
"My
experience, I presume, is much
like that of many other dear
students. I have struggled
through many dark places; but
have been cheered by many flashes
of Light; glimpses of the
spiritual reality."
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TONSILLITIS
HEALED
"From early childhood I usually
had two or three attacks of
tonsillitis each
winter."
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SAVED
FROM
TITANIC
"It
is difficult to tell of the
experience which follows, but the
student of Christian Science will
readily see in it that acceptance
of the truth made the overcoming
of fear possible, even as in the
case of disease, and that divine
Principle is to be relied upon at
all times."
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TONSILLITIS
HEALED
"I
regarded Christian Science with
tolerant amusement until, about
ten years ago, I witnessed a
wonderful healing."
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"TRUE
ESTIMATE OF GOD'S
MESSENGER"
". . . While reading about the
importance of Mary Baker Eddy's
mission and purpose, I felt
within myself that the problem
had been 'broken.' The healing
started at that point and is now
complete."
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HEALING
OF
TUBERCULOSIS
"Three years last month I went to
a Christian Scientist with the
hope that I might get strength
enough to enable me to get to my
sister's home in the east to die,
as I had no expectation of being
cured or having my life prolonged
for any length of
time."
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HEALING
OF
TUBERCULOSIS
"For four years I had struggled
with sorrow and the dread disease
tuberculosis. I had lost all
faith in the God of my childhood
and could not see a ray of light
anywhere."
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HEALING
OF A
TUMOR
"About fifteen years ago, while I
was still depending upon
materia medica, I was ill,
and the doctors diagnosed my
trouble as fibroid interstitial
tumor."
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UPLIFTED
BY THE POWER OF
TRUTH
"About
this time a dear Scientist sent
me an invitation to hear Mrs.
Knott lecture. I came away from
that lecture feeling much as I
think Paul felt on the road to
Damascus. So great was the power
of Truth that I was a changed
woman."
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"USE
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE."
"He
pronounced the trouble nervous
prostration and heart disease and
said that I might live three
days; that if I did live longer I
would become helpless. As I left
his office he remarked, 'Use
Christian Science.'"
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VISION
PROBLEM
HEALED
". . . When I first heard of
Christian Science I had been in a
very bad condition for a year, in
fact life seemed a burden, and I
was patiently waiting to die and
get through with it all, as I
then supposed."
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FROM
A WARDEN'S
LETTER
"This prisoner was received
---- to serve a life sentence for
murder in the first degree. We
were compelled to maintain him in
solitary confinement most of his
time; and he at one time made an
attempt to assault a guard with
the intention of escaping."
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A
WONDERFUL
DEMONSTRATION
"My husband and I are in the
theatrical profession, and during
the performance one evening he
fell to the floor from a height
of sixteen or eighteen feet,
landing on his face and hands,
unconscious."
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WONDERFULLY
ILLUMINED
"While I was reading it the third
time my apprehension was
wonderfully illumined; like Paul
on his way to Damascus, the
scales had fallen from my eyes
and I was healed."
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THE
WONDERFUL POWER OF DIVINE
LOVE
"At the age of forty-five I was
very profane, addicted to
smoking, an occasional drinker,
fond of gambling, and I drifted
into any and all of the usual
pleasures of a man who takes life
easy. Now, all these things are
of the past . . ."
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WRIST
INJURY
HEALED
"I was cleaning the kitchen table
and rubbing it very vigorously,
when suddenly I struck my arm on
something sharp . . ."
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