Every Time I drive past or through Mars Hill, Maine, in the United States, I think of the Apostle Paul's visit to Athens, Greece. You may recall that during a visit to Athens, he was invited to speak about Jesus' teachings to the Areopagus, a kind of council of philosophers, on Mars' Hill. Some scholars believe that he didn't preach on Mars' Hill itself, but in that general vicinity. Either way, for me Paul's encounter with the men of Athens has always been a sign of the openness of Greek people to new ideas.
It's no surprise, then, that there is a Greek edition of The Herald of Christian Science. Here's how it all began.
Toward the end of World War I, an Austrian engineer named Ernest Ziller started Christian Science services in his home in Athens with his three daughters and his son. Ziller had built several buildings in Athens at the invitation of King Othon of Greece. Among them are the National Library, the Greek Academy, and Athens University.
