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IT STARTED suddenly. One day I collapsed and fell to the floor unconscious.

THERE DIDN'T seem to be any particular reason for them. I wasn't in a high-pressure job.

ARTICLES IN THE POPULAR PRESS about healing through prayer or faith appear almost daily. Though this magazine cannot yet be called part of the popular press, it correctly can be said to have specialized in articles on healing through prayer and to have been an authoritative voice on the subject since its founding by Mary Baker Eddy in April 1883.

OUR VOICES JOINED TOGETHER IN UNISON: "Save us, O Lord, from the cynical mind that scoffs at truth and beauty and makes of no account those things which are of good report. " This weekly chapel prayer from my prep-school days didn't mean much to me at the time.

THE TERM FEMINISM was not in wide circulation in the 19th century, but the concept was. People talked about "women's rights" or used the phrase "the Woman question.

" WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A LITTLE MERCY ?" my friend asked. She wasn't asking for mercy but encouraging me to have mercy on myself.

"Job has come to realize that if he is patient and waits by his food bowl, all of his needs will be supplied," says Journal contributor Benjamin F. Gladden.

THE PLAN WAS , I'd leave the wilderness cabin I'd been lent for two weeks and hike up a mountain where I'd camp at the start of the alpine. The caretaker at the mothballed logging camp drove me to the beginning of the road.

MY AUNT AND UNCLE had just moved to a place in Napa, California. I took a week's vacation to go visit them.

I was weighing in after wrestling practice when one of my friends pointed out that I had a skin disease—ringworm—on my back. Because it's considered highly contagious, everyone was freaking out.