Announcements

The CD-Rom at right is a gift for you in commemoration of the opening of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity this month. It contains selections from the Library's historic collections that were read and recorded in the Original Edifice of The Mother Church at 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference.

The purpose of United Religions Initiative is "to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. " URI is cooperative in structure, formed of self-organizing groups—cooperative circles—that are locally rooted and globally connected.

The Religion Communicators Council is an interfaith association of over 500 print and electronic religion publishing professionals, to which several members of the editorial staff of The Christian Science Publishing Society belong. This council holds two annual competitions.

We invite readers to submit testimonies of Christian Science healing for publication. Please address testimonies to: The Christian Science Publishing Society Journal, Sentinel, and Herald Editorial Department, CO4-10 One Norway Street Boston, MA 02115-3195 USA Or e-mail to: jshwrite@csps.

By THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY , Mary Baker Eddy was frequently asked by the press for statements on political and social issues — and about her discovery, Christian Science. In 1901 she responded to a newspaperman's question, "On what is Christian Science based?" by answering that its foundation was "The Ten Commandments, The Ninety-First Psalm, The Sermon on the Mount, The Revelation of St.

Americans go to school, public, and academic libraries more than twice as often as they go to movies. REFERENCE LIBRARIANS in US public and academic libraries answer more than seven million questions weekly.

The following individuals and organizations generously donated items to the historical collections of The Mother Church. The many gifts, including an original letter written by Mary Baker Eddy, rare editions of Science and Health, books and magazines from the 1900s, and period photographs, will help to document the ideas and life Mary Baker Eddy.

A special issue featuring THE MARY BAKER EDDY LIBRARY FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HUMANITY HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A LOOK AT the new research library in Boston that will preview at Annual Meeting next June and be open to the public in the fall of 2002. We'll take you inside the library even while the hammers are still pounding and the collections are being reviewed and prepared for reading and research.

We invite readers to submit testimonies of Christian Science healing for publication. Please address testimonies to: The Christian Science Publishing Society Journal, Sentinel, and Herald Editorial Department, C—42 One Norway Street Boston, MA 02115—3195 USA Or e-mail to: jshwrite@csps.

This year's Annual meeting includes extraordinary opportunities to gain new views of Mary Baker Eddy in her "true light, and life. " Explore.