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I Didn't Know What To Do Next. I had been praying about the right job, purpose, fulfillment.

I left Christian Science years ago for a variety of reasons. I was "out there," big time, on a spiritual journey, because spirituality was very important to me.

We've thought a lot about how our church can be more healing. And we realize that prayer is the best thing going.

Beginning in June 2004, after Annual Meeting, The Mother Church is planning to add services in Spanish on Sundays and Wednesdays because of the significant Hispanic population in Boston. First Reader designate Lyle Young, of Ottawa, Canada, says that this is one of the many ways "to help discover the global church community for everyone.

The whole thing about a really vital church service—the thing that keeps people's attention and creates a climate for healing—is freshness. You feel that at other churches, like the Baptist churches in our community.

1866 Mary Baker Eddy discovers Christian Science. 1875 She publishes her book, which is entitled Science and Health.

Hermann Hering was healed of a longstanding illness through Christian Science, and in the late 1890s he left his academic career to devote his life to prayer-based healing. He later became a teacher of Christian Science healing.

In 1901, the Boston Transcript reported that "in the services of the Christian Scientists .

Lesson-Sermon —As the term implies, a message used both for individual study during the week and as the sermon text at Sunday services. The Lesson now includes six sets of selections from the Bible and Science and Health.

"Music," Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health, "is the rhythm of head and heart. "   Science and Health, p.