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Testimonies of Healing

On the back porch of our home stands a printed sign...

From the October 1901 issue of The Christian Science Journal


On the back porch of our home stands a printed sign bearing the inscription: "No more dumping on these grounds." It is waiting to be placed on a section of our land which has been used for that purpose. As it caught my eye this morning, it came with the ring of a command to me. No more shall mortal mind "dump" into my consciousness the trash of fear, doubts, hate, malice, disease, sickness, sin, and death, to keep it to the level of mortal consciousness, but Truth shall fill it with rich, productive earth; and a sentence from Science and Health by Mary Baker G. Eddy, on page 301, comes, as it so often has, to help me: "Let discord of every name and nature be heard no more, and let the harmonious and true sense of Life, or Being, take possession of human consciousness."

As the sign stands leaning against a box, all that meets the eye from my kitchen window are the words "No more," and I think of the glad promise that awaits the risen consciousness—"No more sea," which "sea," Science and Health tells us, stands for "a symbol of tempest-tossed human concepts, advancing and receding." No more tears, no more death, no more sorrow, nor crying, nor pain. (Revelation, 21:4)—in one word, "no more curse" (Revelation, 22:3).—

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