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While visiting a friend many years ago,...

From the November 1958 issue of The Christian Science Journal


While visiting a friend many years ago, I picked up the textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, and read in the Glossary the definition of God (p. 587): "The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence." This enlightened concept of God led me into the study of Christian Science, and since then I have used it to work out problems of various kinds.

One day I slipped and fell against the sharp edge of a table, cutting a gash between my eyes, and for a few moments I lapsed into unconsciousness. The continued ringing of the doorbell aroused me, and I was able to get on my feet and admit a relative. He helped me to care for the wound, which was bleeding profusely.

I refused his kind offer to remain with me, and upon his departure I sat down and began thinking along these lines: "What caused this accident? What error have I been harboring in my consciousness?"

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