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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.
Extraordinary opportunities, considerable challenge: a statement from The Christian Science Board of Directors Most Christian Scientists would concur that these are times of extraordinary opportunity. The leavening of human consciousness of which our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, spoke has in fact gone on with great rapidity in this century.
From a Reading Room staff letter Recent conversations between visitors to one Christian Science Reading Room and the staff there brought to light several sincere, thought-provoking questions. The answers given by various staff members, we felt, might be interesting to Journal readers—especially if you're wondering about similar matters yourself.
What can one person do? Sometimes in the middle of thinking about a whole community, the value of one enthusiastic reader of The Christian Science Monitor could almost be lost sight of. Here 's a portion of a letter that was received by The Christian Science Publishing Society that tells a great deal about what one person can do.