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The phone is ringing on Friday evening at 6. Herald author F.

During the nearly one hundred years that the Herald of Christian Science has been published, there have been several multi-language editions, as well as one-time issues that combined more than one language. In the Spring of 2002, a special edition of the Herald was issued to tie in with the World Cup Soccer finals in Japan and Korea, So-Whan Hyon, who lives in Seoul, Korea, and is a member of the Christian Science Society there, tells about how the magazine affected him and others.

Individual Herald language teams —and sometimes the Herald staff—collaborate on special issues that they feel will meet specific needs in language areas that are not served by monthly or quarterly magazines. While the magazines are generally in languages other than English, the My Herald (for children) and Teen Heralds are published in English as well as other languages.

For years, readers of the various Christian Science magazines in many countries asked for more articles and materials for children. With the Herald team's expanding view of the magazine and its mission to proclaim the availability of Truth to humanity, the editors began to explore the possibility of producing Herald issues for special audiences, including children and teens.

One of the most quickly created Heralds, the English Braille edition served readers for over sixty years. This system of dots, which represent an alphabet, punctuation, and other symbols necessary for communicating ideas, was invented by a blind Frenchman, Louis Braille, in 1824.

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The period covered by this timeline shows evidence of progress, while also indicating areas where more prayer is needed. Standing on the threshold of the Herald's centennial year, one can see that the way ahead includes challenges as well as possibilities for good.

Every Time I drive past or through Mars Hill, Maine, in the United States, I think of the Apostle Paul's visit to Athens, Greece. You may recall that during a visit to Athens, he was invited to speak about Jesus' teachings to the Areopagus, a kind of council of philosophers, on Mars' Hill.

• A woman finds Science and Health at a lecture, reads it, and is healed of drug and alcohol problems. • A follower of Paramahansa Yogananda's system of yoga and meditation becomes an active reader.

By the close of the first quarter of the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation was in full swing and Lutheranism was going strong. The English king, Henry VIII, would reject the authority of the Pope in 1534.