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What if you've fallen and you think you might have sprained something — possibly broken a bone? You're in a lot of pain. What do you do next? Prayer may not be the first solution most people think of, but for me prayer is a practical, effective way of dealing with everything from life's uncertainties to troubled relationships to accidents — and even illness.

Many people today are asking: Is there something beyond what I can see? Is there a higher power? Who or what is God? Questions like these make me think of a joke I heard years ago when I worked in an employee benefits consulting firm. I was surrounded by actuaries— professionals who use statistics and the laws of probability to calculate insurance premiums and pension benefits.

From Camagüey, Cuba: I have become a faithful listener of your Christian Science program. A friend told me about the Herald program and lent me Science and Health.

The universal message of the Christian Science periodicals is reaching all kinds of people around the world. Here are some of the things they are saying.

From Fargo, North Dakota, US: I am a lifelong Lutheran who has subscribed to the Sentinel for the past several years. I look forward to receiving your publication each week, and usually read it cover to cover.

Unlike many 19th-century women, Mary Baker Eddy not only was a deep spiritual thinker and leader; she was also grounded in the nitty gritty of running a church and getting the message of Christian Science out. This diversity of talents allowed her to establish her Church and The Christian Science Publishing Society, which she expected to support the Church, on solid business and legal ground.

In a 1903 letter to Mary Baker Eddy, periodicals Editor Archibald McLellan asked her for "a rule by which I may be guided when I doubt the value of some article that is presented, or  some plan that is advocated .

It shall be the privilege and duty of every member, who can afford it, to subscribe for the periodicals which are the organs of this Church; and it shall be the duty of the Directors to see that these periodicals are ably edited and kept abreast of the times. — Church Manual, Art.

Controversy Swirls over theories of creation, evolution, and genetics. Fighting has flared up in the Middle East and other trouble spots.

One of Britain's most notable physical scientists, Martin Rees, stated in his recent book, Our Final Hour, that the very survival of the human race is dependent on actions we take in the current century. Rees, Our Final Hour (New York: Basic Books, 2003).