She came all the way from Caracas, Venezuela. She was stout, hearty, full of life, and her eyes widened when she saw them. "¿En espanol?" she asked in amazement. "¿Son estas revistas en espanol?" Yes, we responded, these magazines are in Spanish.
With delight she shoveled as many as she could into her pocketbook. "Gracias, muchas gracias," she said; and her zest for El Heraldo de la Ciencia Cristiana (The Herald of Christian Science) doubled with each title she read. She bubbled over with appreciation that she could read firsthand examples of those who had been healed by understanding God. This is what the Herald meant to a woman from South America.
Thousands of people are using this periodical as their steppingstone to a far greater understanding of God. Hearts are being touched from Finland to Zaire with the recognition that God is Love, and that each one—man, woman, or child—can feel the same divine beneficence that Abraham, Jacob, and Moses did. Not hedged in by territorial boundaries, not censored by harsh political ideologies, the Herald is carrying onward the liberating banner that God is indeed "a very present help in trouble." Ps. 46: 1;
