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The
Atmosphere of Divine
Truth
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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
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"Felt
ye the power of the
Word?"
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. . 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
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"A
very present help
in time of
trouble"
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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
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"The
headache
disappeared"
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. . 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
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Healing - Reformation -
Transformation
Christian
Science Testimonies
G - L
". . . 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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"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 . .
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"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
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
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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