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World
War I
A Soldier's
Experience
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We
were twenty-eight days in the
front line before we were
relieved, and during this time we
were subjected to countless
attacks, had very little sleep,
and were continually in wet
things, the water at times
spurting out of our boots as we
walked. In this condition we were
told off for rest and shelter to
a flax mill a considerable
distance to our rear, and very
grateful we were to snatch a few
hours for rest and sleep. I was
not, however, allowed to sleep
undisturbed, for I was awakened
in the night by what seemed to me
a voice warning me of the
presence of danger; and this
warning proved necessary, as I
shortly discovered the mill was
on fire. Instantly I gave the
alarm, and my comrades gathered
up their belongings and hastily
left the burning building,
thankful to escape unscathed and
unharmed in what was to them such
a miraculous way.
Michael
J. Fahy
Christian Science Sentinel
November 22, 1919
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The
Omnipotence of
God
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. . When I was Reader for our
society and was doing the work of
a practitioner, there was an
epidemic of influenza in our town
and one night I awoke with every
symptom of the ailment. . . .
Fear came, suggesting what would
be said and thought of one in my
position being too ill to read,
and so on. Then suddenly, as if
written on the wall before me in
large letters, I seemed to see a
text which was in our
Lesson-Sermon for that week.
I had noticed it
particularly as it was written in
capital letters. It was as
follows from Revelation: "KING OF
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." I
began to think what these words
meant and to realize that they
referred to the omnipotence of
God, and that since God is
all-power, evil could have no
power, and so I need not fear it.
While thinking thus I fell
asleep, and when I awoke in the
morning the fever and pain were
gone.
Esther
Murray
Christian
Science Sentinel
March 29, 1919
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An
Opportunity for
Healing
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. . When I was putting my studio
in order, I caught the third
finger of my right hand in the
hinges of a piece of furniture.
It seemed certain the finger
would be fractured. Indeed, this
was what was suggested to me, as
I felt something snap with a
sharp pain in wrist, elbow, and
shoulder. At the same moment I
experienced a great joy, —
in short, gratitude for what this
was about to result in, —
and I said aloud, "This is going
to give me the opportunity to
realize the power of Truth
instantaneously;" which, indeed,
I was enabled to do. I extricated
my finger as best I could; it was
flattened and seemed no longer to
have a bone. I went on with my
tidying without disturbing myself
further over what had happened;
and in about a quarter of an hour
I noticed that my finger was in
perfect condition, and there was
no pain then or later.
Nany
Vax
Christian
Science Sentinel
September 6,
1924
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Healing - Reformation -
Transformation
Christian
Science Testimonies
M - R
". . . 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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MALIGNANT
GROWTH
HEALED
"During his stay at the hospital
the patient continued to lose,
and hypodermics were administered
daily in order to bring him some
measure of relief. While he was
in this hopeless condition
Christian Science was
recommended, and my brother at
once said he was willing to give
it a trial."
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MANY
AILMENTS
HEALED
"I caught the inside of one
finger in the catch of an
umbrella, and the sense of pain
was great, but instantly I
remembered that I must not look
for the material evidence but
deny its every
suggestion."
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MARVELOUS
AWAKENING
"One Sunday, many years ago, I
sat waiting to hear Mary Baker
Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian
Science, speak."
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MEASLES
HEALED
"I went back to school and was
examined by the school doctor,
who could find nothing wrong; so
I was allowed to return to my
classroom."
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MEASLES
MENINGITIS
HEALED
"Our little girl, aged seven,
became entirely paralyzed with
what the doctors called measles
meningitis, and although she was
taken to a local hospital and
given the best care possible, she
was visibly fading
away."
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MENTAL
DARKNESS
DISPELLED
"For
many years I longed to know what
we were and what life meant. A
search of college philosophy
courses brought no
solution."
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MENTAL
DISTURBANCE AND SELF-INFLICTED
WOUND, HEALING
OF
"For one who has been lifted out
of a mental and physical hell to
a conscious realization of the
fact that the kingdom of heaven
is within and at hand, it takes
more than words to express that
gratitude which deeds alone can
attest."
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MENTAL
ILLNESS
HEALED
"I was called early last June to
a patient — a young woman
with the claim of insanity —
the claim being hereditary, and
one which leading physicians had
pronounced incurable . .
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MENTAL
ILLNESS
HEALED
"My
case was given up, and I was sent
to a sanitarium for people who
are mentally unbalanced. While
there I borrowed a copy of the
Christian Science
textbook..."
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MISCONCEPTION
OVERCOME
"Having the highest regard for
the mental attributes of this
friend, and believing that she
had been deceived, I started
making a study of Christian
Science wholly for the purpose of
pulling it to pieces that I might
undeceive her."
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NERVOUSNESS
AND INSOMNIA
HEALED
"Although having no knowledge of
Christian Science (in fact I
imagined it to be the same as
hypnotism, etc.), I turned to it
almost as a drowning man would
clutch at a straw, little
imagining the marvelous peace it
was to bring me."
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A
NURSE'S
EXPERIENCES
"Words are inadequate to express
my appreciation for what
understanding I have of the truth
as demonstrated in Christian
Science, especially during the
time of the recent epidemic of
hypnotic fear which swept our
country from ocean to
ocean."
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PARALYSIS
HEALED
"Greater happiness and deeper joy
than I ever deemed possible have
come to me through Christian
Science . . ."
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PARALYSIS
HEALED
"A few weeks ago the family
decided to see if Christian
Science would help him, and
accordingly they called in a
well-known Brattleboro woman, who
gave the boy Christian Science
treatment."
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PARTIAL
DEAFNESS
HEALED
"The physician examined her and
said there were two perforations
in the drum of the ear. A friend
then advised me to try Christian
Science . . ."
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PHARMACIST
ACCEPTS CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
"In the darkest hour of my life,
after trying for some years to
regain my health through materia
medica, I turned to Christian
Science for help, which was
received. "
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POISONING
HEALED
"A
year ago a gentleman who was sick
came to me. He had been told that
I was healed in Christian Science
and he wanted to know what it
was, so I explained to him what
God and Christian Science are, as
well as I knew how."
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POWER
OF TRUTH OVER
ERROR
"My son was presented with an
alcohol engine on his sixteenth
birthday and while testing the
power of it, it exploded,
covering his face with the
burning fluid, the wick adhering
to one cheek burning a hole in
it; his sister, a year younger
heard the explosion and rushed to
him, then called to me to come at
once that her brother was on
fire."
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PROOFS
OF GOD'S CONSTANT
PROTECTION
"I appreciate and become more
grateful each day to Mrs. Eddy
for her life's work in giving us
the true knowledge about God,
about Jesus, about our brother
man and ourselves."
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PROTECTION
DEMONSTRATED
". . . I was awakened by the
presence of some one in my room.
I arose on my elbow and turned on
the light, which revealed the
figure of a man; but before I had
time to do more than see that it
was no one I knew, he seized the
fixture and took out the light
bulb."
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PROTECTION
DEMONSTRATED
"A liner crossing the Atlantic
ran into a fog one evening. One
of the passengers, a student of
Christian Science, ill at ease
over what was a familiar enough
experience, retired early to his
cabin to study those parts of the
Bible, and of 'Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures' by
Mary Baker Eddy, which elucidate
the question of
'mist.'"
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PROTECTION
FROM
HYPNOTISM
"In one of the recitation rooms
of a large public school were
gathered five or six pupils with
their teacher for a few moments'
recreation, when it was proposed
by a boy whom this teacher had
several times magnetized
[hypnotized], that she
try what she could do with those
present."
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QUICK
HEALING
"Finally, as a last resort, she
consented to try Christian
Science, and a practitioner was
called. The call was made over
the telephone at three o'clock in
the afternoon, and an appointment
was made for the next day. When I
got home, the evening after the
practitioner was called, I found
my wife feeling better than she
had for months . . ."
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QUICK
HEALING OF A
COLD
"Instead of commenting upon the
cold in any way, this wise
advocate revealed to my thought
something of the magnitude and
wonder of the great mission of
Christian Science
—
the
redemption of the
world."
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QUICK
RESTORATION TO
HEALTH
"Nearly two years ago a serious
accident befell my son. By a slip
of his motor-bicycle he was
thrown in front of a two-wheeled
cart, which went over his back;
the horse also kicked him in the
mouth, cutting his face severely.
His tongue was terribly bitten
between his teeth, and the loss
of blood was
excessive."
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REJOICING
IN
FREEDOM
"I also received a spiritual
uplift which to me far transcends
my physical healing, and today I
am rejoicing in the freedom that
belongs to God's
child."
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A
REMARKABLE
RECOVERY
". . . How great was my surprise
when for the first time in my
life I heard the tick of my watch
with that ear, with which I was
never supposed to hear again. The
eardrum is gone, the hole left by
taking out the ear bone is still
there, but God does not need
these material conditions to make
His child perfect."
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RESISTANCE
OVERCOME
"With much gratitude I have
turned again and again to the
promise in Ezekiel: 'I will
overturn, overturn, overturn, it:
and it shall be no more, until he
come whose right it is; and I
will give it him.' This promise
has indeed been fulfilled in our
home."
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RHEUMATOID
ARTHRITIS
HEALED
"Fifteen years of disappointed
hopes in doctors and material
means had so weakened our faith
in man's help that when the real
meaning of Christian Science was
explained, we instantly and
joyfully recognized it as the
only logical explanation of God
and the Bible, of man and the
universe."
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