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C. B. G

	                                   BORN AGAIN 

  	    It was in April, 1904, that I first heard the "still,
21	small voice" of the Christ and received healing through
  	Christian Science; and the blessings have been so
  	many since, that it would take too much space to
24	name them. Reared from childhood in an intellectual
  	atmosphere, my paternal grandfather having been an
  	orthodox minister of the old school for forty years,
27	and my father a deep student, ever seeking for the
  	truth of all things, I began early to ponder and to
  	study into the meaning of life, and came to the con-
30	clusion before I was twenty that though God probably
 1	existed in some remote place, still it was impossible to
  	connect Him with my present living. My highest
 3	creed, therefore, became, "Do right because it is right
  	and not for fear of being punished." Then began the
  	suffering. Sorrow after sorrow followed each other
 6	in rapid succession; for ten long years there was no
  	rest, the road was indeed long and hard and had no
  	turning, until finally the one thing that had stood by
 9	me all through the trials, namely, my health, gave
  	way, and with that went my last hope. But the last
  	hour of the night had come, the dawn of day was at
12	hand; a dear friend left Science and Health upon my
  	piano one day, saying that I would gain much good by
  	reading it. 
15	    Glad to get away from my own poor thoughts, I
  	opened the "little bo...ok" and began to read. I had
  	read only a short time when such a wonderful trans-
18	formation took place! I was renewed; born again. 
  	Mere words cannot tell the story of the mighty up-
  	lifting that carried me to the very gates of heaven. 
21	When I began to read the book, life was a burden, but
  	before I had finished reading it the first time, I was doing
  	all my housework and doing it easily; and since that
24	glorious day I have been a well woman. My health
  	is splendid, and I am striving to let my light so shine
  	that others may be led to the truth. There have been
27	some mighty struggles with error, and I have learned
  	that we cannot reach heaven with one long stride or
  	easily drift inside the gate, but that the "asking" and
30	the "seeking" and the "knocking" must be earnest and
  	persistent. 
  	    For a long time I was always looking back to see if
 1	the error had gone, until one day when I realized
  	that to catch a glimpse of what spiritual sense means
 3	I must put corporeal sense behind me. I then set to
  	work in earnest to find the true way. I opened
  	Science and Health and these words were before me,
 6	"If God were understood, instead of being merely be-
  	lieved, this understanding would establish health" (p. 203). 
  	I saw that I must get the right understanding of God! 
 9	I closed the book and with head bowed in prayer I
  	waited with longing intensity for some answer. How
  	long I waited I do not know, but suddenly, like a won-
12	derful burst of sunlight after a storm, came clearly
  	this thought, "Be still, and know that I am God." I
  	held my breath — deep into my hungering thought
15	sank the infinite meaning of that "I." All self-
  	conceit, egotism, selfishness, everything that constitutes
  	the mortal "I," sank abashed out of sight. I trod, as
18	it were, on holy ground. Words are inadequate to con-
  	vey the fulness of that spiritual uplifting, but others
  	who have had similar experiences will understand. 
21	    From that hour I have had an intelligent consciousness
  	of the ever-presence of an infinite God who is only good.
  	 — C. B. G., Hudson, Mass. 
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