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White Plains, New York, sits just north of New York City. Once a country club area, White Plains is now what some residents call a microcosm of America, with people of all types and income levels, religions and ethnicities.

There's nothing like a cozy stove fire in the mountains of Idaho on a chilly January day. Each year I cut and split about eight cords of pine for days like that.

Many years ago, I developed an interest in church architecture that led me to travel to various cities to take pictures of churches. I'm not talking about famous churches like Notre Dame in Paris or Winchester Cathedral in Winchester, England, or even my own country's National Cathedral in Washington, D.

As early as 1897, a copy of Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health was given to the English Literary Society in Buenos Aires. It was given to the Society by an American woman, Sara K.

This article was written by a woman in Cuba. It was originally published in the April 1996 issue of The Herald of Christian Science (Spanish Edition).

Today I am writing these lines because 61 years ago, in 1941, my father was healed through prayer of a very acute nervous problem and physical exhaustion. When traditional medicine proved unable to control his condition, someone suggested that he attend the Christian Science services that were taking place in a theatre in Montevideo, Uruguay.

HEALING IS THE COMMON LINK that has brought Christian Science into many families and even into countries. This was true for Cuba, also (see experience on the next page).

A decade of wars and new ideas about peace, this period in history marks a turn toward greater efforts among nations to work together for the common good. 1940 • Russo-Finnish War ends.

In the 1940s,  most of the members of the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in Mexico were English speaking, but they had been asking The Mother Church, in Boston, for literature in Spanish for a long time. So when the Spanish edition of The Herald of Christian Science arrived, it was like fresh water for the Spanish-speaking community.

" Once again we are able to announce an extension of our activities to include the issuance of this new Herald of Christian Science in the Spanish language," wrote The Christian Science Publishing Society's Board of Trustees in the first volume of the new quarterly Spanish Herald, which was issued in July 1946. "Its mission is to serve those who long to know God better and to read the spiritual messages of Truth in a language which they clearly understand, and thereby bring to them the healing thoughts of divine Love.