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A continuing invitation If you would like to write articles or poetry for the Journal, Sentinel, and Herald —or religious articles for The Home Forum page of the Monitor —the Editors would be glad to receive them. The periodicals depend on articles contributed by members of The Mother Church, and we are always interested in healing metaphysics written in lively, contemporary style.
In the March 1979 issue of The Christian Science Journal appeared a Board statement entitled "Putting first things first," which has had a magnificent response from the Christian Science Field. It is not too much to say that since then there has been a widespread spiritual awakening to the crucial importance of the means, methods, and activities provided by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Manual of The Mother Church for the successful carrying on of the Christian Science movement.
From The Herald of Christian Science (radio) The message of Truth's activity and universal availability heard on The Herald of Christian Science (radio) is being received with great joy the world over. These letters from Africa are examples of hundreds like them: "Two weeks ago I was tuning my wireless when I chanced to hear you.
People are sometimes surprised, when they first visit a Wednesday testimony meeting in The Mother Church, to hear the Reader ask the congregation to make their testimonies brief so that more may speak. Then when the meeting is opened for congregational sharing, the expressions of gratitude are so numerous that people rise and stand to wait their turn to testify to the healing efficacy of Christian Science.
We are happy to announce the election of Jill Gooding, C. S.
Visiting Mrs. Eddy's homes In the mid 1870s, a carpenter with a paralyzed arm came to the doorstep of a home on Broad Street in Lynn, Massachusetts.
In recent years The Christian Science Board of Directors has been reexamining the foundation on which Christian Science nursing rests. This has been done to see more clearly how the foundation for Christian Science nursing is coincident with the mission of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
Three decades ago, as The Christian Science Monitor entered its second half-century of service to mankind, the Editor wrote: "Dedicated and equipped as it is, The Christian Science Monitor is ready to be a pathfinder. The path will not be easy.
"On lighting fires": teachers and superintendents respond Sunday School teachers and superintendents are responding to our invitation—in the September 1987 Journal, "On lighting fires, or doing what we're doing right"—to write telling about breakthroughs experienced in Sunday School. As these letters collect—fueling our joy and gratitude—we feel impelled to share them.