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Part II of an interview with Rose M. Henniker-Heaton

On Sex and Marriage

From the March 1973 issue of The Christian Science Journal


I used to wonder if I would ever find anybody who was right for me to marry.

In the practice of Christian Science, one finds many people with similar fears. But in Isaiah we read, "Thy Maker is thine husband."Isa. 54:5; Now, this is a very beautiful and deep thought. But it used to fill me with dread in the days when I did not see how understanding of divine facts could result in the meeting of human need. I thought that it meant that one might have to endure loneliness as a sort of divine discipline. And I am very grateful to the Christian Science practitioner who showed me how to comprehend its meaning better.

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