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Clerk rhymes with work, and William Johnson was one hard-working, tenderly caring Clerk of The Mother Church, who served as one of Mary Baker Eddy's most trusted colleagues for 20 years. His son, William Lyman Johnson, recalled that his parents had been pew holders in the Dorchester Street Methodist church in Boston, but his father was searching for "some curative power that would heal not only a distressing rupture, but one that would eliminate the dregs of diseases,"  From the reminiscences of William Lyman Johnson, The Mary Baker Eddy Collection, The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.

"Within the last five years," she said, as it was reported in the January 6, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel, "there have been organized fifteen churches and societies in the larger towns of the north of England, and in each case the work started through healing. " But the north of England had not warmly welcomed Lady Victoria Murray's first attempts to form a church a few years earlier.

"Each church or society," Mary Baker Eddy wrote in the April 1895 Journal, "formed for Sunday worship, shall elect two Readers.

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" Back then, terrorism was a foreign concept," explains Gisela Manger of Munich, Germany. "It would not have occurred to us to pray in preparation for the Olympics.

Jennifer Rosebrugh has been a member of Canada's foreign service since 1986, helping Canadian firms do business abroad. Although she is based in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, she currently manages Canada's trade and investment program for sub-Saharan Africa and frequently travels to that continent.

Belfast, Northern Ireland "You have to understand that African terrorism is different from Middle East terrorism, and the terrorism the United States is fighting is different again from the terrorism in Northern Ireland," Steven told me. He is an attendant at a Protestant-based coffee shop for spiritual searchers in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Peace in the Middle East? An end to terrorism? No more African civil wars? Impossible, some say. The difficulties have gone on too long, behavior patterns are too ingrained, distrust on all sides makes compromise unattainable.

Thirty-eight years ago, Gloria Onyuru left her home in Missouri and moved to Turkey with her Muslim husband. Gloria, who as a Christian Scientist, is part of the small Christian minority in Turkey, says she has found great inspiration in the commitment to Islam and to God that she has observed in her adopted country.

" Boot camp tips ," writes one Marine mom. "Run, run, run.