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São Paulo, Brazil —After listening to the radio program of O Arauto da Christian Science [ The Herald of Christian Science in Portuguese] about a year ago, I obtained a free sample of O Arauto magazine by calling a local number advertised after the show. I decided to visit a Christian Science Reading Room.

Mary Baker Eddy expected that anyone who read Science and Health would find help and healing. Visitors to Christian Science Reading Rooms attest to this.

Boston —Please accept this note as a token of my thanks for the services you provided through your Reading Room facility. I moved to Boston seven months ago, to accept a position as a General Counsel, in-house attorney, of a local Internet company.

"We're about delivering transformation," explains Jeff Sinatra, The Mother Church Reading Room Librarian and Manager of the Reading Room Activities area. "If you take a look at some of the retail books on the cutting edge today, they're saying, 'Stores don't just sell things.

Looking back A conversation in Boston It's early June, 1889, late spring in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A Bostonian and a friend from New York have met unexpectedly at the corner of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

"I'd like to congratulate you on your academic work. " Congratulate me? Were these words directed to me? In fact they were.

"When you pray to God," says community activist Marjorie Moore, "get your shovel ready. Because there's always something to do.

"It was during the famine in Ethiopia back in 1984–85," David Orth-Moore explains. "I'd just gotten out of college.

I came out of university believing that countries like mine were diseased. They call it developing country syndrome, in which government corruption and mismanagement weaken the institutions needed to build a strong and stable society.

I was a teenager doing summer volunteer work with children in the inner city. One day, cleaning up after a busy day, I referred to the children as "underprivileged.