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Several months ago a young mother telephoned and asked me to pray with her for her young son. During a medical check-up he'd been diagnosed as having a problem with one of his eyes.

I learned about Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy through self-help books that mentioned it. A friend who was very interested in metaphysics told me that Christian Science presented God as the only power—omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

A Gallup survey in 15 countries showed that Germans are gold medalists in pessimism. Eighty-seven percent believe that the future will bring no good.

I was living in Uruguay , where I was born. I was a soprano and was about to give a recital, accompanied by a quartet.

One day my father told me he had enjoyed talking to a young man who had come to the house and left us an invitation to a Christian Science lecture. I ended up going to this lecture with my wife, and since the lecture was interesting, I took down the address of a Church of Christ, Scientist.

I was a clown . I danced in variety theatres, music halls, and at the circus.

I was downtown in Karlsruhe, Germany , and was waiting for the tram at a trolley stop. A bookstall on a small nearby square caught my interest, and I wandered over.

I still remember the awe I felt during my first airplane flight, cross-country from San Francisco to Washington, D. C.

Many years ago I was host to a devout Muslim woman who had come to England from Algeria to improve her English while she was taking a course at a local college. We talked a lot, particularly about our religions.

I'd always wanted to be an ambassador or a diplomat, perhaps working at the United Nations or an embassy, so that I could contribute to making the world a better place. But because of other careers I had pursued, I finally realized one day that this just wasn't going to happen.