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For several years I longed for a clearer...

From the July 1944 issue of The Christian Science Journal


For several years I longed for a clearer understanding of God, and this desire has been fulfilled in the teachings of Christian Science.

There comes a time in the experience of every Christian Scientist when we must learn to stand alone with God. For me this time came early, when I was a young student of Christian Science. Our daughter, who was nine months old, was very ill with whooping cough and pneumonia. At the time I was visiting my parents, who were not interested in Christian Science. The remark was made that if I expected Christian Science to heal the child in that critical condition, I must expect it to raise the dead. I replied that nothing is impossible to God.

When the hour seemed darkest I turned to our Leader's hymn (Poems, p. 12):

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