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Every Week There Are News Reports about people facing threats from which there appears to be no way out. Then, occasionally, encouraging stories describe means of deliverance beyond what the human mind can imagine.

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Over the years certain ways of doing things become habitual, pile up, and finally seem like unchangeable rules. Unless people take time to rethink them, these ways become mindless or rigid in any organization and in individuals' personal lives.

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).