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PRACTITIONER MEETINGS! At this year's Annual Meetings of The Mother Church, members were encouraged to think together about the Sermon on the Mount, especially in relation to the question, "What does it take to be a healer?" As all of us think more deeply about our role as healers and what it means to the world, The Mother Church would like to offer the opportunity for branches to invite the President of The Mother Church, Mark Swinney, C. S.

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PRACTITIONER MEETINGS! At this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, members were encouraged to think together about the Sermon on the Mount, especially in relation to the question, "What does it take to be a healer?" As all of us think more deeply about our role as healers and what it means to the world, The Mother Church would like to offer the opportunity for branches to invite the President of The Mother Church, Mark Swinney, C. S.

PRACTITIONER MEETINGS! At this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, members were encouraged to think together about the Sermon on the Mount, especially in relation to the question, "what does it take to be a healer?" As all of us think more deeply about our role as healers and what it means to the world, The Mother Church would like to offer the opportunity for branches to invite the President of The Mother Church, Mark Swinney, C. S.

At this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, members were encouraged to think together about the Sermon on the Mount, especially in relation to the question, "What does it take to be a healer?" As all of us think more deeply about our role as healers and what it means to the world, The Mother Church would like to offer the opportunity for branches to invite the President of The Mother Church, Mark Swinney, C. S.

Dear Fellow Members, Sometimes the theme of Annual Meeting comes as a definite statement. Like last year: "We are a church of healers!" But other times Annual Meeting can best be stated as a question.

THE AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, Mary Baker Eddy, informs us in the preface of that textbook that in 1881 she opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston under the seal of the Commonwealth. In 1889, at the height of its prosperity, she saw the need to close it in order to dedicate her entire time to the revision of the textbook.

This June's Annual Meeting will invite members and friends of The Mother Church to join together in asking, "What does it take to be a healer?" Mary Baker Eddy's stirring words in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 offer a wonderful starting point for praying about this quesion. She writes: To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts, announced on September 11, 2006, an agreement to sell a home formerly occupied by its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, to the Longyear Foundation of Brookline, Massachusetts. The home—at 12 Broad Street, in Lynn—was occupied by Mrs.

MARIAN C. ENGLISH, C.