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The Atmosphere of Divine Truth

Before I became interested in Christian Science, I called on some Christian Science friends in Denver one day when I was suffering from a severe cold. When I left their house I became suddenly conscious of the fact that I had no cold — I had been healed. This seemed so strange that I did not forget it. Several years later, after I had gained some understanding of Christian Science, I realized that it was the true thinking of these friends which had healed me. It is my one desire that I, too, may live consciously in this atmosphere of divine Truth, so that wherever my thought may rest it may carry a blessing.

Catherine Hartzell
Christian Science Sentinel
October 19, 1919

   

  

 

 

  

  

"Felt ye the power of the Word?"

. . . I became very ill suddenly at noontime, having a hemorrhage which continued a half hour. I felt that I could not live many more minutes, so asked my mother to telephone for a Christian Science practitioner — not to get help for myself, because I did not expect to live until my mother reached the place from which she could telephone, but in order that the practitioner might comfort her. About ten or fifteen minutes after she left the house I felt very much better and regretted having asked anyone to go out on such a hot day. An hour later, when the practitioner arrived, he said that as soon as he left the telephone he sat down and gave me a treatment. I knew then why I had felt so much better in a short time. Mrs. Eddy asks, "Felt ye the power of the Word?" (Poems, p. 75.) This was what I had felt, and I had been snatched from the edge of the grave.

Caroline Kruse
Christian Science Sentinel
October 12, 1918

   

  

 

 

  

  

"A very present help
in time of trouble"

One day my husband brought our little son into the house unconscious, and laid him in my arms, saying that the mule had kicked him. The evidence of the senses seemed to tell me the worst, but I looked away from the body and immediately began to declare the truth, realizing that God was his life and that matter had no life to surrender. I also read from Science and Health, and in twenty minutes the child opened his eyes. An hour and a half later he was eating dinner and showed no ill effects. Surely, God is a very present help in time of trouble.

Erna Gutman
Christian Science Sentinel
October 12, 1918

   

  

 

 

  

  

"The headache disappeared"

. . . I found myself rooming at the home of a Christian Science practitioner. One evening I returned from downtown suffering with a sick headache, and on entering the house, had to lie down. The practitioner asked if I cared to have her treat me, and I said if she could help me any to do so, although I did not know how Christian Science worked and did not believe in it. She told me to go to my room and I obeyed, and as I reached the doorway of the room the headache disappeared; then I knew a change of thought was necessary about the efficacy of Christian Science, so I took up the study of it.

Thomas W. Hendricks
Christian Science Sentinel
November 23, 1918

Healing - Reformation - Transformation
Christian Science Testimonies
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". . . 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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GLORIOUS LIGHT "In the year 1919 I was struck with blindness."


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"GOD IS LIGHT" "I had occasion a few months ago to drive fifty miles in one day through the Rocky mountains. My companion and driver was a hardy native son, familiar with the roads and accustomed to handling horses."


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"GOD WAS WITH ME" "I was captain of a British man-of-war, which was torpedoed by a German submarine in the southeastern Mediterranean. When the ship gave her last plunge, I dived overboard, but was immediately sucked back again under the foc'sle awning, some twenty feet under water."


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GOITER, HEALING OF A "When Christian Science found me I was afflicted with what physicians call a goiter."


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GRATEFUL FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF GOD "Christian Science freed me from every vestige of nervousness, and brought to me a sense of peace, calm, and harmony, which I had never before known. Insomnia had troubled me during all these years; but this was healed in the first treatment."


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GRATEFUL FOR THE TRUTH "About twelve years ago I became interested in Christian Science, not for physical healing, but out of curiosity. I had heard it and Mrs. Eddy ridiculed and condemned so often from church pulpits that I began to wonder what its teachings were, not thinking it would mean anything to me, as years ago I had given up all belief in religion, God included."


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GRATITUDE AND PROGRESS "When I first came to Christian Science I was hungry, thirsty, starving for the Word of Life."


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GRATITUDE, EXPRESSION OF "Is it, then, dishonoring God to love and revere the one whom He has appointed to teach the truth to this age?"


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HARMONY IN THE HOME "After reading the textbook I knew I had found the truth. I wrote to a practitioner and asked for help, and can now say that my home has been changed from discord to harmony."


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HEADACHE AND BLADDER TROUBLE HEALED "I had been a sufferer from headaches for over thirty years. As I was an atheist, religion was the last thing I thought of when a member of my family suggested Christian Science."


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HEADACHES HEALED "I had suffered with very severe headaches since childhood, and was told that they were inherited, as my mother had always been troubled with them."


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HEADACHES HEALED "I had not read many pages until I came to the conclusion that this was the most marvelous book I had ever read. It upset my entire religious education."


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HEALTH, PEACE, AND HAPPINESS FOUND "Four years ago I first heard of Christian Science. This was in a grocery store where one lady said to another, 'The lady on the opposite side of the street heals by Christian Science.'"


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HEART DISEASE HEALED "I went to a practitioner for treatment, began to improve, and in less than a month I was well."


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HELP FOUND IN THE NINETY-FIRST PSALM "Before coming to Florida I had heard much in regard to the noxious insects and reptiles with which the region was thought to abound, and of which I was warned to beware."


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A HELPFUL EDUCATION "My first experience in the destruction of discord and the realization of harmony was a healing of mumps."


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HEMORRHAGE, HEALING OF "Two months later the doctor called to see what had become of me, and frankly admitted he could not understand a power that could do such wonderful work."


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"I FOUND GOD . . ." "Brought up in an orthodox church, at an early age I rebelled at its inconsistencies, and believing that truth was not to be found in religion I turned to the study of the physical sciences, philosophy, biology, and medical research."


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ILLNESS HEALED "I would like to testify to the beautiful healing of my mother, who was very ill last summer and seemed about to pass on."


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ILLNESS HEALED "A young piano pupil of mine was taken ill several days before I arrived at his home to give a lesson. On my arrival his mother met me saying he was in bed."


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"THE ILLUMINATED PATHWAY" "Who would have dared to broach Christian Science to me if I had not been as helpless and hopeless as I then believed myself to be? But our Father sent a messenger to me that day."


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INFECTION HEALED "This demonstration was most remarkable to me, for I had seen cases where the material symptoms manifested were no worse than in his case and the patient was laid up for weeks."


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INFLAMMATION, HEALING OF "I was in a hospital ten weeks suffering from inflammation of the kidneys, and no doctor could help me."


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INFLUENZA, HEALING OF "Every day I am becoming more grateful for the life of Jesus the Christ, and feel deeper gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her unselfish, loving work for humanity."


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INJURED FOOT HEALED "Through the understanding of God as taught in Christian Science I have been lifted out of the practice of material methods of healing into a work which is much more helpful, both to myself and to those with whom I come in contact."


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INJURED HAND AND WRIST HEALED ". . . As my understanding of God increased, many physical healings were experienced."


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INJURED NOSE HEALED "The great verities about the nature of God and divine healing are to be found in the Bible, but Mrs. Eddy gave me the insight by which I learned to understand those texts in their all-important actuality and practicability."


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INJURIES FROM FIRECRACKER HEALED "On the Fourth of July, 1902, I went out to celebrate the day and started in with a six-inch cannon cracker."


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INJURIES HEALED "I should like to tell first of a healing my little girl had five years ago. She was running across the road in pursuit of her brother when she was knocked down and run over by a car."


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INJURIES, HEALING OF SEVERE "The gas burst out, ignited, and caused a terrific explosion, which broke all the windows in the building, and some across the street, and shook buildings several blocks away."


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INTERNAL GROWTH HEALED "I am particularly grateful for the removal of fear, which up to the time I commenced reading 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' by Mrs. Eddy, seemed to possess my whole life."


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KIDNEY STONE AND OTHER AILMENTS HEALED "The attack referred to as kidney stone had the characteristic symptoms of that disease in a violent form. The healing was most remarkable and convincing."


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LEPROSY, HEALING OF "Having closed up my business affairs, I decided to go to the army surgeon at Washington for examination and for such treatment as might be prescribed, but without any hope of cure, and wishing for solitude and oblivion."


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LIFTED OUT OF MISERY "I had no near relatives, was lonely, poor, scarcely able to work; and I was so unhappy that it hardly seemed worthwhile to struggle against such seemingly overwhelming odds."


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LIP, HEALING OF A LACERATED ". . . Oh! the joy and spiritual uplift of knowing that our own right understanding of God and man — the true man being perfect and spiritual, even as the Father is perfect — does heal instantaneously and permanently, certainly is a blessing that one can never describe or know until he has realized that truth for himself."



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