Before you settle down in a chair to read this, we thought we'd better forewarn you that it just might cause you to get up and do something! In fact, you may want to look at this together with fellow Reading Room workers. In any case, you'll need a pad of paper and a pencil. (We'll wait while you go get them.)
Most of us have heard the description of a Reading Room that begins something like "a quiet place where...." In some ways that's vital in this age where stress is labeled as an epidemic, and the din of ceaseless sound would try to compete with silent prayer. But when "quiet" is misinterpreted to mean "dull," that hardly does justice to this expression of a God-given idea.
The Reading Room of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Paris, isn't quiet. "We have an average of four visitors per week who are completely new to Christian Science," the members wrote to us. "One practitioner recently told us that she has three new patients who became acquainted with Christian Science through the Reading Room."
