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Before David's encounter with Goliath, he was a musician. In fact, he first came to the royal court to soothe King Saul's mental distress with the beautiful melodies of his harp.

" A tornado has been spotted two miles southwest of the Oklahoma City airport," the weather bulletin said. "It is moving toward the northeast at 25 miles per hour.

Persistence. It's a word that applies in many contexts.

Cindy Neely loves color. No, she isn't an artist.

"I've never been to a church service like that," says Harry Grayson, referring to a Wednesday evening meeting in May at his Park Avenue church on the Upper East Side (read upper income) of Manhattan. He and fellow members of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, turned adversity into generosity—and responded by helping their neighbors.

I was just relearning Spanish when my church began to hold Spanish-language services, and I became the soloist. One Sunday morning I woke up with a terrible case of the flu.

Hazel Corrin got the message. It proved to be a message that, in its own modest way, was like the calling that the Apostle Paul heard to go to Macedonia and share the good news of Christianity.

In response to requests from college students wanting to offer talks on Christian Science on their campuses, Mary Baker Eddy in 1904 wrote a By-Law called "Privilege of Members," under the section "The Mother Church and Branch Churches. " It enables students, instructors, and members of the faculty at colleges and universities to form and conduct Christian Science organizations (CSOs).

New Readers of The Mother Church, First Reader Lyle Young and Second Reader Suzanne Cowin, are fluent in English, of course—but they're also fluent in Spanish. For the first time in its 125-year history, The Mother Church made Spanish speaking a prerequisite for the two people appointed to these special positions.

Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.