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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.

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.

"The tree of life .

" 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.