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"The second coming of Christ" I did not come into Christian Science for the healing of sickness; but I came because I saw in it what I had been looking and longing for, what was called in the church I then went to "the second coming of Christ." I had read all I could on this subject, and had become convinced it would not be as the churches expected, or as they wrote and spoke on the subject. Alice M. Anderson The Christian Science Journal September, 1924           "Confidence in God's love and power for protection" During the recent earthquake in Japan, I was staying in Kamakura with a Japanese family, students of Christian Science. While bathing in the sea on the morning of September 1, 1923, I was suddenly knocked down, without any warning. At once I declared, "God is All — omnipotent;" and such a sense of peace and joy came to me, with confidence in God's love and power for protection, that I was conscious of nothing else. I did not feel afraid at all, nor notice at first that houses and cliffs were falling all around; and I was able to join the family and escape from the tidal wave which came up almost immediately. Rose Stewart The Christian Science Journal August, 1924           Gratitude and Unfoldment Someone has said in speaking of our present understanding of Christian Science: "We are only in the vestibule of Truth; we have not yet even entered into the temple." I realize this more each day, as clearer meanings and new interpretations come to me in studying the Bible and our Leader's writings. There is a long way yet to travel; but if we are grateful for a little, more will be added. Frances H. Snowell The Christian Science Journal June, 1924           "An answer to my prayer" . . . As I took ["Science and Health"] in hand for the second reading, I closed my eyes and mentally declared my desire to know the truth, with love-filled thought telling God that I was willing to lay aside preconceived and educated beliefs for Christian Science, if it were the truth; that I would carefully, prayerfully read and practice just the little I understood. Is it any wonder that before I finished reading the book the second time I was healed? Yes, absolutely healed of an organic disease and extreme nervous prostration. How could it have been otherwise when I had opened the door of my thought to divine Love? During the latter reading (and at times it would last for hours) I became so absorbed that I could not lay the book aside. Daily I was becoming conscious of healing taking place; and in an uplifted moment I exclaimed, "Oh, that I might know the certainty of all this, — this that seems too wonderful to be true!" Instantly the room seemed to be flooded with a great light, and I lost all sense of self. I had received an answer to my prayer. Caroline A. Parker The Christian Science Journal June, 1924           Answer to Critics Critics of Christian Science should remember that their failure to accomplish, in some degree, the healing works demanded by the Master of his followers, denotes a lack of understanding of his teaching and of the divine Principle involved in such works, and should deter them from judging a teaching which, in an encouraging measure, is doing those very works. Louis Potts Christian Science Sentinel May 1, 1926           Clergyman Answered From The Bible . . . Our friend objects to others having their views regarding the deity of Christ Jesus; yet we find in the King James Bible that Jesus is referred to as the "Son of God." Then, too, when Jesus was called "Good Master," he said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." We are told in the Bible that "God is a Spirit." After his resurrection Jesus said, "A spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." William Brandt Christian Science Sentinel May 1, 1926           New Birth As I was hobbling along the street one day, I passed a Christian Science church, and noticed a sign reading, "Free Lecture on Christian Science." Although I did not know what Christian Science was, I was very desirous to attend the lecture and managed to get there, but in great pain. I shall never forget what a grand lecture that was about God and man, and man's relation to God. From then on, the light began to dawn on me; and having caught some of the crumbs that had fallen, I certainly went home a much wiser and happier man. The next Sunday I attended the Christian Science church, and was advised to secure a textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This I did, and have read and reread it. I soon began to experience some of the most beautiful healings, both physical and spiritual. The tobacco habit of long standing left me completely; and as I began to understand more about God, and of the relation man bears to Him, that God is Mind, divine Principle, I began to put off the "old man" and take on the "new." Rheuma-tism, profanity, and temper left me; and I have had no use for cane or crutches since. Charles A. Stipp The Christian Science Journal March, 1924           Spiritual Growth Brings Understanding At first, there was much in Science and Health that I could not understand; but I had been advised not to be discouraged by this but to press on faithfully, using as much of the truth as I understood, and I should find that whatever seemed obscure would unfold as the natural result of spiritual growth. This has been proved true many times; and I can recommend it to everyone. Marguerite Little Young The Christian Science Journal February, 1924           Help with School Exams At the close of the first semester, it had seemed necessary for me to leave high school. I studied during the evenings, but could not find time for my algebra. At the end of the year, I was permitted to take the examination with my classmates. During the test in algebra I became so discouraged that it seemed impossible to solve any of the problems. I bowed my head in prayer, and the realization came that God is Mind, and that man in God's image and likeness reflects this Mind. I turned to my paper. The way to work out the problems came, as if written before my eyes. Thus the power of divine Principle over-came discouragement and a limited sense. I passed all my examinations. Enid Goodwin The Christian Science Journal March, 1924           "Perfectly healed" During the war, and while serving in France, I was severely wounded. While in this state and in great pain, all I could think was, "God is my Life, and God is my strength." With this assurance, I pulled through three successive nights. Afterwards, the head nurse told me they had all given up hope. I was finally discharged as disabled and medically unfit, and was left a physical wreck. I could not seem to get rid of pain. While I was at my home in England, I asked a Christian Science practitioner to help me; and treatment was lovingly given. From the first treatment I began to improve. The healing was slow but sure; and one day I found I was perfectly healed. I could walk, run, jump, without any ill effect whatsover, a thing which I had not been able to do for over three years. Arthur G. H. Pratten The Christian Science Journal March, 1924           Medical Doctor Adopts Christian Science We have had so many proofs of God's loving care that my husband, after forty years of material remedies as a doctor, has given them all up, has given away his medical library, instruments, and drugs, and is now a student of Christian Science in all sincerity. Charity L. Field The Christian Science Journal July, 1923           Healing of Hatred I should like to testify to the healing of hatred, as I had thought before coming into this beautiful truth of Christian Science that I was justified in hating one who I thought had wronged me. I was healed through that love which comes from God. Kate M. Yeakle The Christian Science Journal July, 1923           Saved from a Tornado It has been my desire for some time to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. . . . In 1915 our house and all the buildings on the farm were blown away in a tornado. There were five in the house at the time, including myself and our little girl, who was then eight months old. No one was hurt, except for a few bruises and cuts, although the house was completely demolished and scattered for more than a mile. Louise Wait The Christian Science Journal June, 1923           Grief, Addiction, and Lack Healed . . . The craving for whisky was not easily or quickly healed, and, as a consequence, neither was the claim of gaunt want. I had many practitioners, in many places, all of whom helped me and encouraged me to hold on; but I continued to stumble and fall until about sixteen years ago I met a practitioner in St. Louis, who saw that the mental condition was one of grief. He treated me, and I was healed of grief. The false appetite for stimulants and the false belief of want then disappeared. In due time I was restored to my proper place and to my family and friends. John L. Bruce The Christian Science Journal May, 1923           "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" A few years ago, through several Christian Scientists of this city letting their light shine, my husband and I were led to get the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. After reading the chapter on Prayer I regretted ever having entertained wrong thoughts about Mrs. Eddy. What she must have endured to give this truth to the world, we can only faintly realize. Sadie C. Douglas The Christian Science Journal April, 1923           Christian Science Since taking up the study of this beautiful religion, the years have been crowned with the goodness and the love of God, not because of any change in His attitude towards us, but because Christian Science is teaching us to know Him aright. Maude Hetherington The Christian Science Journal December, 1922           Prejudice Overcome . . . A cousin living in the West wrote that she had received much help from Christian Science, and urged me to try it. All I had ever heard about Christian Science was against it. I thought it some new fad, and was very much prejudiced against it; but my husband and sister, although having no especial faith in it, urged me to try it; and I finally did, much against my will. When I saw the practitioner I said: "I want you to fully understand me. I do not believe in Christian Science. I do not believe in you or that you can cure me. I only try you to please my husband and sister." Then she asked so gently, "You believe in God?" I indignantly replied, "Of course I do!" Then she quietly and lovingly talked to me of Christian Science. I can never repay her for her loving, tender patience in leading me forward, awakening me to see and understand my real self. The healing [of a so-called incurable disease] was slow, but sure. Della H. Davis The Christian Science Journal November, 1922           Toe Healed I almost severed the end of my toe, so that it hung by a thread of flesh. It was set in place and held there by a strip of linen. The pain, which was excruciating, ceased in about twenty minutes. The dry blood was washed away the following morning, and only a thin red line indicated where the tear had been. I put my shoe on, did much walking that day, and would never have known that I had had an accident. Maybelle Gowenlock The Christian Science Journal October, 1922           Truth "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up," Christ Jesus told the disciples bringing him word that the Pharisees were offended at his teachings. Whatever is held in thought which is not true, which has not its origin in the divine, sooner or later must be removed. Truth must and will supplant every erroneous belief, every phase of falsity to which mortal thought would cling. Albert F. Gilmore Christian Science Sentinel April 24, 1926           Questions Could it be proved that sin and sickness were illusions from which a knowledge of God would save us? Could the power of Mind over matter be proved? Was it possible that Christian Science was the Comforter promised by Jesus? These questions came surging in upon me and slowly but surely they were answered in the affirmative. Florence B. Hamilton The Christian Science Journal May, 1922           "Nothing can hurt God's child" It had long seemed to me that there was something lacking in the teachings of the church to which I belonged, for we had Jesus' definite words, "These signs shall follow them that believe . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover;" yet this was not being done. So when I heard of Christian Science, it seemed natural that a correct understanding of God should result in the cure of disease. I read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, but without getting much meaning out of it. It was not till I was suffering from chronic neuritis that I was sufficiently humble to ask for help. A talk with a dear Christian Scientist comforted me, and her parting words, lovingly and confidently spoken, "Nothing can hurt God's child," gave me hope. She had promised to give me treatment, and just a week later I awoke one morning with a wonderful realization of God as the only Life. I had thought I had always believed that God was Life, but I had not seen before what that meant. I felt I was healed, although the pain left me only gradually. It was an Easter morning when this light came, and for the first time I was really grateful to Christ Jesus for his wonderful work in overcoming death, and I saw why Christian experience is spoken of as a warfare — the constant effort to prove that God, good, is the only Life and the only power. From that day my health improved, and it is now normal. Jessie G. Gray The Christian Science Journal May, 1922           Gratitude Gratitude heals. Grateful thoughts are certainly healing thoughts. They destroy the erroneous beliefs of melancholy, depression, despondency, and discouragement, which are among error's most active agents. We cannot be conscious of these suggestions of error while our consciousness is filled with gratitude. And when we begin to be grateful, we shall have less time or inclination to dwell upon the beliefs of material existence, but instead shall improve our time by thinking more of God's perfect universe, including His perfect creation, man. Herman Campbell Blye Christian Science Sentinel April 17, 1926           Mrs. Eddy What do we not owe in love, loyalty, and obedience to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for all that she has done for mankind! Can our way seem long and hard when we think of that spiritual pioneer pushing on alone, and with sublime courage, to the discovery and founding of Christian Science? Anna Sanborn The Christian Science Journal May, 1922           "From the unreal to the real" After many years of sickness, and just as I was able, after a severe illness, to walk out, I met an acquaintance who had been an invalid for nineteen years, who insisted on telling me how wonderfully she had been healed by Christian Science. I had never heard of Christian Science before, and being more interested in my own aches and troubles, paid little attention at first to what she said. But she kept saying over and over, "I tell you I was healed by Christian Science and I want you to try it," until I finally said I would think about it. In going home on the streetcar I thought over what she had been trying to tell me and decided I would call on the practitioner whose name she had mentioned to see what she looked like. She proved to be a dear woman whose conversation soon convinced me that Christian Science was just what I needed, and had been looking for. In a few treatments I was cured of rheumatism and stomach trouble and started on the way from the unreal to the real, and while my progress has been slow, I have kept right on, knowing there is no other way. Jennie L. Liebhardt The Christian Science Journal March, 1921           Human Philosophies Human philosophies are forever trying to understand Mind through "its opposite, matter," and that is why they lead nowhere and can never satisfy us. F. Maud Brown The Christian Science Journal December, 1920           Animosity Healed A neighbor of ours brooded over a fancied wrong which he thought had been done him and would not even return our greeting or speak to us, and several times made unkind remarks to others about us. This condition lasted for about three years until one day I had occasion to be near his mine and was enabled to see so clearly the absurdity and falsity of his attitude that the error was instantly destroyed. He immediately came to me and said he had just seen where he had been mistaken in holding animosity against me but still spoke in a defamatory manner of my partner. A week later he came unasked and helped me repair a boiler and repeated his remarks about my partner, which I mentally denied. He went to my partner the same day and spoke cheerfully to him and ever since has been a staunch friend. George J. F. Stephens The Christian Science Journal November, 1920           Birthmark Healed My child came into this world with a good-sized birthmark over the right eye, which made me very unhappy. Then the thought came to me that the child could be freed from this trouble as well as from any sickness. So I requested help from a practitioner in Dresden, and in a fortnight the birthmark had vanished. Lina Keller The Christian Science Journal November, 1920           Unfoldment of Spiritual Understanding Through years of service in an orthodox church I had come to have great faith in prayer and to believe if one prayed "nothing doubting" he would receive an answer, and I had experienced some practical proofs of this. This faith led me to Christian Science, and not until then did I even dream that evil is not real, and that there is a rule by which to prove its unreality. Through the application of this rule I have been healed physically, morally, and financially. Janet D. Burbridge The Christian Science Journal October, 1920           "Holding to the truth" One morning after sharpening an ax I repaired to the woods with my son. While cutting some poles to make a raft my ax glanced through a rotten alder and landed into my right ankle bone. I sat down and removed the shoe, bound up the wound and started to rise, but found that I was lapsing into a state of unconsciousness. By holding to the truth I was able to rise, walk a mile, have breakfast, and attend a meeting at which I read the Lesson-Sermon, afterwards walking home. The wound, though terrible to mortal sense, healed perfectly within a week, and all sense of pain disappeared on the evening of the accident. William Arthur Ball The Christian Science Journal September, 1920           "Careful study and application" My progress for a long time was very slow, but that was because I did not realize the necessity and importance of careful study and application. During the past five or six years, while passing through a very trying experience, I have learned this necessity and my progress has been greater. Nellie B. Lacy The Christian Science Journal August, 1920           "Daily resurrection" . . . Let us pray in our hearts for a clearer vision of man as the reflection of God! We need it; our churches need it; the world needs it, vitally too. It will come to the world as we are more faithful in our daily resurrection above materiality, above the false beliefs that deaden our receptivity to the Christ-spirit. Josephine Meador Christian Science Sentinel April 3, 1926           Christian Science Articles & Testimonies Uplifting, Healing, Transfiguring   This area contains some of the articles, testimonies, and other items of interest which have been recently added to our website. - Signs of the Times ". . . Most of us, including the children, are not getting enough time for solid thought and solid reading, for learning about men and women of devotion, the kind who have not counted their lives dear unto themselves but have been ready to give them up for the sake of something bigger." - "Enter not into temptation" "It requires fortitude to confront the false beliefs which claim to be one's own thinking, to separate the false from the true and to reject the former as unreal. But this method alone prepares one for quick discernment between right and wrong and gives one the victory over the beliefs of evil." - Removing Stumbling Blocks "When individuality is recognized as consciousness which is ever coexistent and coactive with God, or good, separate and apart from the so-called material body, with its supposititious five physical senses, the student begins to awaken from the Adam or animal dream." - Burden Rolled Away "A friend, seeing my need, had spoken to me of Christian Science, but I only laughed at the idea of its helping me. Now, however, when death seemed very near, and I was living in the blackness of despair, I remembered her offer, and sent her word that she might send me a practitioner." - Reformed "I had only a blind faith, and was waiting for an indefinite something to come along and heal me of my bad habits and help me when I was sick. I gave nothing; made no real effort, except religiously to attend the services; but declared myself a Christian Scientist at every opportunity, another phase of trying to take everything without giving or striving!" - Signs of the Times "'What We May Learn from Christian Science,' was the topic of the third in the series of addresses on what other denominations contribute to religion, delivered by the Rev. Alfred Grant Walton at the First Congregational Church." - "Scientific certainty" "The question presents itself, How may we gain such an understanding of Truth as will enable us to heal disease and sin after the pattern set us by the Master, our great Exemplar?" - Keeping Our Demonstrations Modest "When we shall have learned all the wonderful lessons which this demand of our Leader makes upon us, we shall be kept from attempting, as did Peter, to walk on the water before we are sufficiently humble to do it successfully." - Baby Healed "Material means had been exhausted for our six months' old baby girl and we expected her to pass on at any time." - Our God "Does the way stretch sometimes lonely? / Is the answer hard to find? / Rise above these seeming shadows / Turn to God, the only Mind." - Universal Availability of Good "'Christian Science strongly emphasizes the thought that God is not corporeal, but incorporeal, — that is, bodiless,' Mrs. Eddy tells us in 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' (p. 116)." - On the Overcoming of Evil "Once admitted into consciousness, evil assumes some aspect of reality, and its banishment may require persistent knowing of the truth. The Apostle James, recognizing this, declared, 'Resist the devil [evil], and he will flee from you.'" - Influenza Healed "'Error,' says our beloved Leader in 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' (p. 368), 'is a coward before Truth;' and time and again it has fled before a resolute affirmation thereof." - "A marvelous message of love" ". . . The literature which my friend gave me, and 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy, which I borrowed from the local Reading Room, convinced me at once that a marvelous message of love had been given by God to this age." - Reply to a Critic "In their efforts to accomplish the redemption of humanity, Christian Scientists stand on the same platform with other religionists, but they do not wish to imply that there is no difference between their views and the doctrines of other denominations." - Life "' . . . I am learning that Life is Mind and not matter, and that Mind forms its own ideals of all things; that mortal mind peoples the vegetable, animal, and mineral kingdoms with creations of its own, giving to each and all its own mortal outline, form, and color, while the formations of immortal Mind or God are indestructible, harmonious, and eternal.'" - Pain and Paralysis Overcome "The practitioner pointed out to me that it was necessary to replace every thought of resentment and self-pity with a declaration of love and gratitude in order for the truth to be demonstrated." - Mumps Healed "I knew little of Christian Science, except that its adherents claimed its healings to be accomplished without opiates or other drugs; and, in fact, without the use of any material means." - Pastor Becomes Christian Scientist "I feel that I should witness to what Christian Science has done for my enlightenment and salvation. During nearly forty years I was a pastor of churches of one of the larger bodies of professing Christians." - Injuries Healed "In the fall of 1911 I was traveling on a passenger train, riding in the car next [to] the engine, when our train collided head-on with a freight train. It was a very dark night, and the accident occurred about midnight while the train was running full speed." - Smoking Habit Healed "To my surprise the practitioner said nothing about it until the conclusion of the interview, when she simply said, 'If you feel the desire to smoke, will you please call me immediately, at any hour of the day or night, so that I may help you to overcome any such desire?'" - "There is help for you!" "I returned to the home of the friends with whom I was staying (who by the way were Christian Scientists) disheartened and discouraged. One of them met me at the door and asked what the doctor's verdict was. I told her that there was no hope for me; I was going blind. I shall never forget her words, 'But there is help for you!'" - Joseph, Businessman and Statesman "The story of Joseph is full of encouragement to all who are tempted to believe that their own individual surroundings are especially hard and unfavorable." - Flu Healed "One night I awakened with intense suffering. I worked, as Christian Science teaches us, for myself until morning; while I grew no worse, I felt no better. About eight o'clock I called my father to help me; and for two hours or more it was a fight for life." - Grateful for Christian Science "Our only child, a little daughter, was given up by two doctors to die of cholera infantum." - Ways that are Vain "Unless one's eyes are opened to the modes of mental malpractice, working so subtly that we mistake its suggestions for the impulses of our own thought, the victim will allow himself to drift in the wrong direction without knowing it. Be ever on guard against this enemy." - Blood Poisoning Healed "About three years ago I had blood poisoning in the middle finger of my right hand; but, while the appearance of it became very alarming, I was able, through the knowledge I had gained of Truth, to be on duty at my place of business every day, suffering very little pain and inconvenience." - The "little book open" "Now is salvation come, honor, glory; / The 'little book open,' / Truth nevermore concealed — / God and man to mankind revealed!" - "A complete healing" "Many years ago, three members of our family developed tuberculosis in varying forms." - Questions and Answers "How can I believe that there is no such thing as matter, when I weigh over two hundred pounds and carry about this weight daily?" - To-day "This is God's day — the day that He hath made. / We will be glad, and will rejoice in it." - Grateful for Healings "I am very grateful for all the healings which I have experienced. Most of all, I am grateful for the spiritual understanding I get through the study of Christian Science." - Quick Healing "My friend coming to my room found me in tears and asked the reason; and on being informed of the serious condition I felt I was in, kindly sent for her next door neighbor, who was a Christian Scientist, knowing I had just begun looking into the subject." - Abscess Healed "When a child of two years old I had a disease which left me with an abscess in one of my ears, from which I suffered for more than thirty years; then it was healed through Christian Science." - Transformed "Before Christian Science found me I was unhappy and miserable. My trouble was not so much physical as mental, although heart disease had been growing worse for several years, and I felt my end drawing nearer from day to day. Then something wonderful occurred." - Demonstration "The distinct separation of Spirit and matter is a vital point in this teaching, one which it urges uncompromisingly." - Animosity Healed "As I was rereading the New Testament, I came across this beautiful verse in Matthew, 'For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,' and I thought with gratitude what the practice of that verse had meant to me." - "Rejoice!" "To one student of Christian Science the word rejoice has taken on a wonderful meaning since an experience of a year ago last winter which led her to see the importance of rejoicing under every circumstance." - "Great spiritual help" "There had never been a moment in my experience in which such wonderful and happy changes had taken place as when I received my first treatment in Christian Science." - "God's allness and protecting power" "Recently I had a most convincing experience which absolutely proved God's allness and protecting power." - Divine Presence Realized "For many years I seldom knew a day without pain. Loving friends, physicians, and a famous surgeon, all tried to correct the many diseases that claimed me as a victim. All attempts failed." - God's Man is Free "That all have the right to be free is clearly elucidated in the teachings of Christian Science." - Awakening "His effectual awakening of Lazarus from the dream of death constitutes one of the most significant incidents of the life of the Master. By his works he proved beyond peradventure of doubt that Life is not dependent upon matter, but is rather wholly independent of it — that Life is self-existent." - Rolling Away the Stone "Over and over again Mrs. Eddy shows us that Jesus always turned from the testimony of the material senses to the evidence of Spirit, Soul, in order to find that which is true. And it was this which enabled him to prove the allness of Spirit, Life, and the nothingness of matter, death." - Gunshot Wound Healed "During the summer of 1917 I was taking a pistol apart, when it discharged and the bullet entered my right hand at the base of the middle finger, passing entirely through." - Digestive Disorder Healed "In 1911, after I had been ill for months, unable to eat, or to retain even a drink of water, or to help myself in any way, two physicians declared my case hopeless unless I consented to an operation." - Signs of the Times "'Give me understanding,' was the cry of the Psalmist, so 'that I may learn thy commandments.' Are there not amongst these commandments the commandments of forbearance one to the other, of exercising Christian charity in thought as well as in deed?" - Reply to a Critic ". . . 'Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.' This gospel could not have contained anything about the crucifixion, the atonement, or the blood of Jesus, for the crucifixion had not taken place." - The Ethics of Christian Science "Perhaps there could be no more glaring offense than that one to whom the sacred office of practitioner has been allotted, should betray, by repeating to another or others, the personal affairs which have been confided to him by patients coming to him for help." - "As taught by Mary Baker Eddy" "Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, . . . bequeathed and devised the bulk and residue of her estate to The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in trust, to be devoted and used by The Mother Church for the purpose of more effectually promoting and extending the religion of Christian Science as taught by her." - The Sleeping and the Waking Dream "'. . . Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream?'" - The Test of Progress ". . . The progress of each succeeding age has been measured by its understanding of this Love and its demonstration of higher ideals in human living." - Signs of the Times "There are so many beautiful things to be thought of that it seems sacrilege to fill the mind with idle and unprofitable thoughts." - Spider Bite Healed "One night at a performance in Mexico City I received an exceptionally beautiful bouquet. The next morning I manifested all the symptoms of tarantula poisoning." - Devotion and Consecration "There are two types of thought — the Mary and the Martha." - "The temple gate of conscience" "Our Leader has a great deal to say about conscience in her various writings, and there is no doubt but that it is a subject of vital importance to all Christian Scientists." - The Comforter ". . . Christian Science became to us the Comforter, lifting us above all sense of sorrow into the realization of the ever-presence of divine Love and of our inseparability from Love and from the real spiritual man." - A True Estimate of Mrs. Eddy "The lecturer gave us a beautiful account of Mrs. Eddy's lifework, showed how she had founded the Christian Science movement, and spoke of the consecration and devotion which had enabled her to surmount all difficulty and opposition." - Being Practical "We can have no assurance of the practicability of a thing until it has been tested by ourselves or someone in whom we have confidence. Then we know that it is practical." - "The action of Truth" "I am a witness of the healing power of God through Christian Science, even though at the time I was in complete ignorance of its teaching and its methods." - Christian Healing "To Christian Scientists there is today no dearer ambition than so to understand and demonstrate their unity with the divine idea that healing shall be again accomplished both speedily and completely." - Injuries Healed "While at the seaside one August my two children had a beautiful healing from what seemed to human sense a serious blow caused by a lad who was repairing a boat nearby where we were sitting." - Freedom Demonstrated "Many doctors examined me, and did all they possibly could to help me. They said that the optic nerves and the auditory nerves were entirely destroyed, and that there was no hope of recovery of sight and hearing under these conditions." - Christian Science Thanks "New England's last Thanksgiving Day of this century signifies to the minds of men the Bible better understood and Truth and Love made more practical; the First Commandment of the Decalogue more imperative, and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' more possible and pleasurable." - Gunshot Wound Healed "On August 30, 1923, while driving with an acquaintance, I accidentally discharged a shotgun, seriously injuring my wrist, removing the wrist knuckle and the outside bone, and fracturing an inner bone." - Protected from a Storm "Sometime after midnight I was awakened by the sound of howling winds. I got up and saw that a hurricane and a tidal wave seemed imminent." - "The peace of God" "No matter what the sense-testimony seemed to be we denied it, knowing that where the fury of mortal mind seemed to be there was the peace of God." - Grateful for Blessings "This revelation of Truth was indeed wonderful to me, and it broke the dream of the physical senses. With this afflatus came the realization that the real man has never been born, and it is impossible for him to die." - True Sympathy "He who is taught by Love divine / True sympathy to understand, / Knows how to meet a brother's need, / And lend to him a helping hand, . . ." - Repentance ". . . The questions have arisen: Just what are my sins? How can I be sorry? How can I reform?" - Is There No Sacrificial Atonement? "The real atonement — so infinitely beyond the heathen conception that God requires human blood to propitiate His justice and bring His mercy — needs to be understood." - Unity with God "What joy we experience when we have gained even a small understanding of what it means to 'live, and move, and have our being' in God!" - Introduction to a Lecture "Men and women are like windows, through which spiritual light may shine and thus be made manifest." - God's Omnipresence "When Moses felt afraid to undertake the work God had given him to do, because he recognized his own inadequacy, he asked God whom He would send with him to help him. Then God said to him, 'My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.'" - The Finished Work of God "It will be readily apparent that the understanding that the real creation is perfect, complete, finished, must have a very marked effect on the lives of those who possess it." - Healing of Illness "Some years ago I was attacked by a malady of which I cannot give the name, as it was never diagnosed; but the symptoms were intense internal pain, so severe that it often caused the tears to run down my face." - God Alone Exalts "All true exaltation belongs to God; consequently, there can be no exaltation for man except as his unity with God is demonstrated." - Thoroughness ". . . When an appearance of error flaunts itself, it is not sufficient to think or to say, That is a belief of envy, resentment, greed, senility, or whatever the case may indicate. The mental work must be pushed further than that." - Our Leader's Hymns "Occasionally the question is asked from various parts of the field, as to how frequently our Leader's hymns should be sung in the church services." - Spinal Meningitis Healed "Our little daughter, aged five, had become suddenly ill. Her condition reached such a stage that it alarmed her mother, who was at that time merely interested in Christian Science." - Christian Science Not Hinduism "The one divine intelligence as taught in Christian Science contains within it nothing unspiritual." - Dreams "Evil is never anything other than a dream, which seems real to us so long as we cling to a material sense of things." - Kind Lions "Ann is seven years old. She is deeply interested in all the wonderful knowledge that is daily unfolding itself to her at home and at school; but above all she is interested in what she learns about God in Christian Science." - Questions and Answers "Does the theology of Christian Science aid its healing?" - Causation Spiritual "It is God's work, which stands forever, to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away. Completeness and perfection prevail in the universe of Spirit." - Compassion "He was the friend of publicans and sinners, / He walked among the lowly and the meek; . . ." - "As we forgive our debtors" "When Jesus taught that incomparable petition, 'Forgive us our debts,' and then added the yet more remarkable condition, 'as we forgive our debtors,' he certainly presented to mankind the way to attain limitless possibilities of good." - Mother's Evening Prayer "O gentle presence, peace and joy and power; / O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour, . . ." - Ruling One's Own Spirit "In Proverbs we read, 'He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.'" - Questions and Answers ". . . I believe in this removal ['the removal of a person to heaven, without his subjection to death'] being possible after all the footsteps requisite have been taken up to the very throne, up to the spiritual sense and fact of divine substance, intelligence, Life, and Love." - A Prayer "Oh, lift mine eyes above the sons of men, / That they may fasten on the things of Thee; . . ." - "Medical Paternalism" "'The Constitution of this Republic should make provision for medical freedom as well as for religious freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.'" - "Glorious liberty" ". . . Incredible as it may seem, I had not been sober for two years. I had often tried to conquer the craving for strong drink, but had failed utterly, and had become such a slave to it that I almost lived on it, taking very little else." - Paralysis Healed "A dear neighbor who was a Christian Scientist came in often to see me, offering each time to help me; but it seemed to me futile for one who knew nothing about disease to attempt to heal what three eminent physicians had failed to relieve." - Questions and Answers "How does Mrs. Eddy know that she has read and studied correctly, if one must deny the evidences of the senses? She had to use her eyes to read." - "This wonderful revelation" "A few years ago I knew nothing about Christian Science, and was fully convinced I did not wish to know anything about it." - Petition "Dear God, / Teach me to pray / understandingly!" - Love Goes Before "As love is not won by fostering hate, so we gain spirituality by dwelling upon spiritual things, holding thought to spiritual Truth, spiritualizing our aims and desires." - Introduction to a Lecture "'The time of the end,' prophesied by Daniel, is here and now. Said that prophet, 'Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.'" - Address to the Concord Church, February, 1899 "Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance." - "Proof of God's love" "When our third son was two years old, medical science pronounced him useless to the world. He had developed physically, with the exception of walking, but mentally he had made little or no progress." - Injuries Healed "I was run over by a truck, and error tried to tell me that I was going to die." - Eyes Straightened ". . . I was under Christian Science treatment, and asked a loving practitioner if she thought my child's eyes could be straightened by Christian Science." - Questions and Answers "If all that is mortal is a dream or error, is not our capacity for formulating a dream, real; is it not God-made; and if God-made, can it be wrong, sinful, or an error?" - Beliefs of Old Age Rejected "Not years, but the acceptance of the belief that mortal experiences are real is what bows the form, dims the eye, furrows the cheek and brow." - Christian Science "Hungering and thirsting after a better life, we shall have it, and become Christian Scientists; learn God aright, and know something of the ideal man, the real man, harmonious and eternal." - Flu Healed "The doctors and nurses said there was no hope, and that I would grow weaker until the end. My sister, who had been in Science for several years, came in and said, 'Well, if you are through, I'll see what Christian Science can do for her.'" - Infection Healed "I awoke one morning with a severe case of conjunctivitis. It was a day for which much had been planned, and I was bitterly disappointed when I found that I could not open my eyes." - Prayer Answered "The burden seemed too heavy to carry longer, so I earnestly prayed all night, asking God for help and guidance to see the Christ-way." - "The importance of guarding thought constantly" "On several occasions I have had direct proofs of the good results of right thinking and of the ill effects of wrong thinking." - "Completely healed" "I do not know why I should have been opposed to Christian Science, as, to my knowledge, I had never heard the two words put together before; but I was immediately prejudiced, and said, 'Oh, that must be faith cure, and I could not have any faith.' My friend replied, 'No, it is not faith cure: for I was healed, and I did not have any faith.'" - "The allness of God and the nothingness of error" "After spending a holiday with some friends, when getting out of the train on my return I was suddenly seized with violent pains so acute that I almost lost consciousness." - Foreign Material Removed from Eye "About a year ago, while at my work, a soft spot in the emery wheel with which I was working flew off so quickly and unexpectedly that a great deal of the emery went into my eye, making it impossible for me to see." - "There is no connection between a lie and Truth" ". . . From no possible point of view is it correct to say that a lie is always a lie about something. Hence I repeat that absolutely it is not possible to lie about Truth, and relatively it is not possible to talk about evil at all without telling a lie about a lie." - Mrs. Eddy's Corrections "In his November 29, 1907 letter to Judge Septimus J. Hanna, Edward A. Kimball insisted that he had never taught that man has spiritual organs. But the following page from Mr. Kimball shows that he did hold to a theosophical notion of spiritual organs." - Questions and Answers "The 'man of sorrows' knew that the man of joys, his spiritual self, or Christ, was the Son of God; and that the mortal mind, not the immortal Mind, suffered. The human manifestation of the Son of God was called the Son of man, or Mary's son." - Prayer for Country and Church "Pray that the divine presence may still guide and bless our chief magistrate, those associated with his executive trust, and our national judiciary; give to our congress wisdom, and uphold our nation with the right arm of His righteousness." - Unfoldment of Love for God ". . . I analyzed my concept of God before I knew anything of Christian Science. I had thought of Him as being the originator of condemnation, sacrifice, and evil, and had decided that the less I knew about Him the better." - Chemical Burns Overcome ". . . My little dog apparently drank a solution of caustic potash. He was found some days later, and upon examination it was found that his tongue had entirely gone, and death seemed inevitable." - Questions and Answers "If mesmerism has the power attributed to it by the gentleman referred to, it should neither be taught nor practised, but should be conscientiously condemned." - Today "The Psalmist writes, 'This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.' Is not this what we all long to do — rejoice in each new day as it is unfolded to us?" - Pure Rationality "'. . . [Mrs. Eddy's] message is the most purely rational that has been delivered to man; . . .'" - Self-Abnegation "There is nothing that the Christian Scientist desires more earnestly to attain than real self-abnegation." - Message for 1900 "In Revelation St. John refers to what 'the Spirit saith unto the churches.' His allegories are the highest criticism on all human action, type, and system. His symbolic ethics bravely rebuke lawlessness. His types of purity pierce corruption beyond the power of the pen." - "The power of God" "I can bring many witnesses to vouch for the truth of this wonderful healing; for it attracted a great deal of attention, and is still often spoken of among those who, though not Scientists, were convinced witnesses of the power of God." - Look Up! "Mrs. Eddy tells us in the Glossary to Science and Health (p. 586) that 'eyes' mean 'spiritual discernment, — not material but mental.' In the light of this definition we can more easily understand the Biblical expression, 'Lift up your eyes, and look.'" - "Many blessings" "When temptation comes, whether it be sin, sickness, poverty, or what not, we need only to draw closer to God and know that as we replace sense-testimony with spiritual reality there is nothing left to cause anxiety." - "Well-being and freedom" "During the time of drought and depression which this part of the country went through two years ago, my husband's business seemed in a very bad way indeed, the bank having stopped giving any more credit, and the fear was expressed that the business would have to close down and the work and savings of years be lost." - Remarks by Clara Barton "'Mrs. Eddy should have the respect, admiration, and love of the whole nation, for she is its greatest woman.'" - Flesh Wound Healed "One day my little son fell on a foot scraper which had a heavy spring on it, and the spring ran into his mouth between the gums and cheek." - Tumor Healed "On my way home after the treatment, I found that my thought, which had seemed to be so full of fear and hate, was full of a love that I had never experienced before." - The Lesson-Sermon "Never before has the Bible been studied as it is today by Christian Scientists, and in the clear light of divine Truth we have glimpses of the holy city of Revelation which, despite mortal blindness to spiritual facts, is an ever-present reality." - Hearing Impairment Healed "For over a year I was noticeably deaf, being unable to hear an ordinary conversation unless it was especially directed to me; neither could I hear many consecutive words from a speaker's platform, although seated in close proximity to the speaker." - "Thy will be done" "Who would think of fearing that which he knew could bring him only perfect happiness? Yet perfect happiness is what our Father-Mother, Love, has in store for each one of us." - The Word is with Power "All Christian Scientists are most deeply interested in this power of the Word, and all are longing to understand and demonstrate it perfectly." - Drinking and Smoking Habits Healed ". . . From my youth, I had been a heavy drinker and smoker. I used to boast that I would never be a teetotaler; and I never went near one if I could avoid it." - Abnormal Growth Healed ". . . I stood firm in the realization that nothing exists but God and His universe, peopled with His ideas, all governed and controlled by His spiritual law, all as perfect as the Father, now." - Many Beautiful Healings "Christian Science is indeed the truth which is steadily leading us out of the bondage of sense into the glorious liberty of the sons of God." - "The true thinker" "Sincerity, mental elasticity, humility, and teachableness are characteristics of the true thinker; consequently the adult who has grown proud of his opinions must regain childlikeness, before he can become a thinker or understand Truth." - Humility "In 'Miscellaneous Writings' Mrs. Eddy, in speaking of humility, says (p. 356): 'This virtue triumphs over the flesh; it is the genius of Christian Science.'" - "A better and happier existence" "When a boy in the teens I became very despondent over my prospects in life, and lost all interest in everything, becoming somewhat of a recluse. The despondency grew from year to year until it developed into suicidal melancholia . . ." - The "pearl of great price" "My loving desire is to help all those I can to realize their blessed heritage as God's dear children; and it is such a joy to know that good is always unfolding and will continue to unfold more and more through all eternity." - "I love Christian Science" "A few years ago I listened to a testimony on Christian Science by a lady who stated that she had been a student for thirty-three years; and after enumerating some of the blessings she had received, she closed her remarks by saying, 'I love Christian Science.'" - Signs of the Times "Christianity has in it one idea that makes it quite distinct from the others. Christianity affirms that the main gateway to God is through love." - Need of the Spirit "We must find the open door to the very heart of divine Love before we can accomplish instantaneous healing. We must possess not only the letter but the spirit as well, before we can reach this great desideratum." - "The kingdom of his dear Son" "To all who are unhappy, sad, poor, sick, or suffering Christian Science comes with healing from the false belief of separation from God, restoring them to their right place in 'the kingdom of his dear Son.'" - Reply to a Critic "It is not difficult to note the sharp contrast which the Scriptures point out between a material method of healing and the divine method." - "Physician, heal thyself" "Occasionally students of Christian Science are called upon for treatment before they have themselves received complete healing." - Dominion "The place where each one must exercise dominion is in his own thinking. It is there his battles with evil must always be fought; there all his victories must be won." - Distribution "A number of years ago Mrs. Eddy was asked by a student in one of her classes to what extent Christian Scientists should endeavor to bring this healing truth to the notice of the public by printed articles." - Science and the Senses "Jesus' personality in the flesh, so far as material sense could discern it, was like that of other men; but Science exchanges this human concept of Jesus for the divine ideal, his spiritual individuality . . ." - Consecration "Continuous devotion to God is the highway to spiritual attainment." - Children "The care of young children should always be approached from the standpoint that it is a holy work." - "Armor on" "In the epistle to the Romans Paul gives this sage counsel: 'Let us put on the armour of light.'" - Effects of an Accident Healed "Not long ago I was struck by the attached engine head of a falling windmill tower." - Back Pain Healed "I do not know how long I worked, but for a time I was not conscious of a material body, — I just knew that man is spiritual, 'neither in nor of matter.'" - Divine Protection and Healing "I began the study of Christian Science nine years ago after attending church a few times with a sister who was interested." - "Be ye thankful" "No one in the world today responds to Paul's exhortation, 'Be ye thankful,' more readily than does he who has experienced some measure of the marvelous blessings which accrue to the beneficiary of Christian Science." - Overcoming Sympathetic Mesmerism "Not by knowing error — sorrow, sickness, misery — can one comfort and heal it; rather is aid given by knowing its nothingness, its utter unreality, for God knows of man only his perfection; and nothing is true of man which God does not know about him." - Taking the Long Look at Life "We can find harmony or heaven only by living love and cultivating the graces of Spirit. Happiness can come to us only as our understanding of Life is improved." - "Transformed in thought and deed" ". . . I was suffering from several so-called incurable diseases, and three of the best medical doctors refused to prescribe, knowing that they could do nothing for me." - The Secret "Though mists of mortal sense may seem to hide / The light of Truth, yet Love will break the spell, / Reveal the glorious fact that none beside / Our Father reigns; within His house we dwell." - Depression Healed "With deepest gratitude I offer my testimony of Christian Science healing, hoping that it may lend encouragement to another." - Respiratory Disease Healed "Since Christian Science has been revealed to me I am striving daily to have that Mind in me 'which was also in Christ Jesus' and our revered Leader, and I am most humbly grateful." - Signs of the Times "'If physical disease is God's will and desire, why did Christ, who came to do His will, fight against it and heal the sick?'" - Signs of the Times "In a recent sermon prelude, the Rev. George Laughton dealt with the question: 'Should the law compel Christian Scientists and others, who do not believe in academic medicine, to employ a physician or to use antitoxin?'" - Changing Our Standpoint "Many a prayer, many an honest struggle, many a deep experience often appears to be needed before one learns the lesson of approaching all Christian Science demonstration from the unchangeable standpoint of Spirit and spirituality." - Seeing and Acknowledging "So long as we accept the material evidence, whether willingly or unwillingly, we fail to see the spiritual evidence, which to the spiritual sense is never absent, namely, God expressed in His idea, man, in His own image and likeness." - "God's healing and protecting power" "I was instantaneously healed of the result of two accidents, through the realization that man is a spiritual idea and does not live in a material body." - Freed from Discords ". . . I know that only by living this truth and letting my light shine can I hope to prove the deep gratitude I feel." - "Come and dine" "In the twenty-first chapter of John's gospel is the story of the appearance of Jesus to some of his disciples after his resurrection, a story which is radiant with the glory of spiritual understanding." - God Satisfies the Desires ". . . Since God includes all good, nothing truly satisfying can be found outside of that good." - Well Doinge is the Fruite of Doinge Well "The Scriptural metaphors, — of the woman in travail, the great red dragon that stood ready to devour the child as soon as it was born, and the husbandmen that said, 'This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours,' — are type and shadow of this hour." - Signs of the Times "The secret of living happily and effectively is not in externals; it is not in possessions and environment, in clothes and furnishings and the tools of living. It is in the attitude of the mind toward life. It is in what we think." - "The healing effects of Truth" "About eight years ago Christian Science was presented to me, and I feel so grateful and happy about it. Many times have I been able to see the healing effects of Truth." - The Second Bishop of Kensington ". . . In my invitation I drew your attention to the challenge which the action of that body of Christians called Christian Scientists makes. It is to me indisputable that they do heal the sick both in body and mind." - Reply to a Critic ". . . The chronic critics of Mrs. Eddy and of Christian Science are often found quoting isolated statements, or even parts of sentences from Science and Health and holding them up to ridicule." - Healing of Fatigue "Before this great light came to me, life was simply one heavy burden and weariness laid on top of another." - "The greatest blessing" "However indifferent my attitude toward Christian Science when first it was brought to my attention, I could no longer ignore it when it healed me instantaneously of a sickness of which medical aid had failed to relieve me." - Divine Theology ". . . As Christian Scientists let us all protect, adhere to, love, and revere that holy theology which is part and parcel of God's own Science, which includes the understanding of Christ's Christianity, and which is absolutely necessary to the scientific healing of the sick and the sinner." - "Profoundly grateful" "One day SOS calls repeatedly came to us from a freighter which had been torpedoed and was sinking with eighty-four men on board." - The Voice of God "Since God is Mind and Mind is good, we can only know God through His good thoughts; we therefore hear His voice when we discern His thoughts." - The Child and the Teacher "What a blessed spot is a Christian Science Sunday School! Here the child and the teacher, in heaven-born gladness, meet to hear, to see, to understand the living presence of the Christ." - Healing of Burns "While cooking on the top of the gas stove, I lighted the oven and left it for a few minutes. When I opened the oven door there was a loud explosion, and I was bathed in flame." - Love's Demands "The devoted disciple in the laboratory of his own life gains the power which enables him to destroy the claims of error." - "As an eagle stirreth up her nest" "The observant may learn many useful lessons from nature, and the Bible abounds with similes and metaphors taken from the daily lives of plants and animals." - "Our Father-Mother God" "One Sunday morning last spring, while the juvenile Sunday school class was assembled in our little circle, the thought was expressed that it was 'Mother's Day.'" - Healing of Sorrow "One day my husband came to me with beaming face, saying that he had heard of Christian Science and that it healed." - "God's loving care" "Each day brings a new proof of God's loving care." - One Holy Purpose "Nothing can truly prosper which is not in and of the infinitude of God, good. Then to find a right purpose we must certainly look to God for it, since He is the one and only originator of all good." - "Filled with gratitude" "To make the story short, I underwent six operations, with the result that I had to give up my position and go home to Denmark with an almost stiff and useless arm." - Skull Fracture Healed "The doctor, a prominent surgeon, told me that with a fracture of that nature my husband could live but a few hours." - "Thought governs the body" "I should like to share an experience which was a further proof to me that thought governs the body, reflecting on it harmony or disorder." - Questions and Answers "What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief, 'To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise'?" - "Ask, and it shall be given you" "In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus not only said, 'Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you,' but also, 'Ask, and it shall be given you.'" - Courage "There is, perhaps, no quality more necessary to successful endeavor than courage." - Grateful for Healings ". . . As a girl in high school I realized I was losing the hearing in one of my ears. At the end of several months the hearing had entirely gone." - Reverence "Reverence is a holy quality and has to do with holy things. It is that which honors and reveres all that is true and valuable and noble and good." - Restored to Health "Christian Science has taught me to know that it is the darkened thought that produces fear and discordant conditions, and that just in proportion as the light of this glorious truth dawns on one's consciousness can fear be overcome." - Depression and Paranoia Healed "The faithful doctor, who very earnestly and honestly tried to cure me, finally said that another month would find me in an insane asylum, for every known remedy had been exhausted." - Signs of the Times "Most medical men are agreed that seventy-five percent of the cases of influenza they have recently attended have been directly induced by fear." - Demonstration "It is the truth the words stand for which is the power, and it takes more than a mere repetition of words to bring their substance into realization." - Introduction to a Lecture "I am glad of this opportunity for a foreword to the lecture to be delivered this evening, that I may speak of Christian Science, the cause and subject nearest my heart, . . ." - "For Which Works Do Ye Stone Me?" "The carnal mind was enraged because of the truth which declared that the flesh profiteth nothing. Enraged at learning that material man is not God's image and likeness, and that the pains and pleasures of the senses are unreal, it vented itself upon the Teacher. But it failed in its attempt to free the world of troublesome truth." - "Life is real, and death is the illusion." "It has been my custom to read from Science and Health or some of our literature before going to sleep, and one night soon after calling upon the practitioner to treat me, I was awakened with a sense of having been close to the shadow of death." - The Right Place ". . . There are times in human experience when one apparently finds himself in very unpleasant and discordant surroundings from which he longs to escape. What is he to do then?" - Spiritual Vision "In so far as the student of Christian Science understands that man as God's idea is coexistent with God, the divine Principle of all, and obeys God's loving behests, just so far can he prove the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of the divine Mind." - Dream and the Awakening "Who has not had the experience of realizing, in the midst of a disturbing dream, that it was, indeed, 'only a dream,' and would pass away when he awakened from sleep." - Injuries Healed "While standing near a trapdoor, it was opened without my noticing it, and on stepping backward I fell, striking my spine on a cement floor about eight feet below." - Smoking Habit Healed "Christian Science was brought to my notice about four years ago by my sister, who had been healed of a disease which doctors stated was incurable." - The Law of Supply "When Mrs. Eddy gained the spiritual understanding of the Bible, she knew at once that her own healing had been brought about through the natural operation of divine law; that this law had not through some special dispensation operated in her behalf, but, as law, was always present and always in operation." - Ailments Healed "About five years ago I was indeed at man's extremity, but it proved to be God's opportunity; for an understanding of man's relationship to God came to me through the reading of the Christian Science literature." - "He shall call upon me, and I will answer him." "Today, after several years of study and more beautiful demonstrations than I could enumerate, — one, the healing of a disease of over twenty years' standing, — I thank God for the most practical, purifying, and elevating influence that ever came into my life." - Mastery ". . . It is well to ponder Paul's words to the Corinthians, his conclusion being reached from watching those engaged in the Roman games. He says, 'Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.'" - God's Ideas "God is unchangeable, eternal, including all that is good; and to learn what God is, unfolds what creation is; . . ." - Complete Restoration to Health "I was afflicted with defective sight and defective hearing from birth, had worn glasses from childhood, but even with the aid of glasses at times it was difficult for me to see to read." - Grateful for Healing "Having been healed by mental surgery, I wish to give my experience, believing that it will help those who still cling to the belief that human hands are necessary to adjust displaced organs and dislocated vertebrae." - Something for a Beginner "The truth about God and man, intelligently brought to bear upon any situation, is what constitutes a Christian Science treatment." - God's Man "When Jesus sent out his twelve disciples 'to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease,' he commanded them to declare the kingdom of heaven at hand, and among the instructions he gave was this: 'I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.'" - Spiritual Discernment "No student of Christian Science would deny that in order to attain the best results in healing, the clearest spiritual discernment is needed." - Fidelity "Seeking is not sufficient whereby to arrive at the results of Science: you must strive; and the glory of the strife comes of honesty and humility." - Restored to Perfect Health "I am a veteran of the Civil War, and while in the service sustained injuries which culminated in a severe rupture." - Angels "When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts." - Exact Expression of Truth "Mrs. Eddy did not find it easy, as she frankly admits, to express metaphysics in physical terms, but she gave the world an exposition of Scriptural truth that has no equal; and there is no religious literature which excels in high spiritual teaching and power that which is the outcome of her prophetic insight and foresight." - Signs of the Times "The firm confidence of the Christian is well illustrated by a conversation that occurred a short time ago between a young man whose father had just died and an acquaintance who was endeavoring to comfort his sorrowing heart." - Heaven "According to the Scriptures there are different planes of spiritual existence which are called heaven. Paul speaks of someone who was 'caught up to the third heaven,' and he says, 'Of such an one will I glory.'" - From Drugs to Christian Science "In advertising I described diseases and their symptoms according to the prevailing methods of medical practice, . . . As time went on I began to observe that in every town and city where this advertising was introduced, an epidemic of diseases followed." - Divine Guidance and Protection "Just a little over a year ago I was able to demonstrate the guiding and guarding power of divine Mind in the third battle of Ypres."