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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.

Impressions from dedication day Warren Bolon, Senior Writer Quoting a seminal sentence from the Preface of Science and Health, Virginia S. Harris, chairman of The Mary Baker Eddy Library's Board of Trustees, said in her dedication remarks, "If 'the time for thinkers has come,' then a place for thinkers has come.

A monthly magazine for seekers Rosalie E. Dunbar Managing Editor, The Christian Science Journal When Mary Baker Eddy established The Christian Science Journal in 1883, she had a specific purpose in mind, namely, that it would answer questions about spiritual healing that were coming to the Massachusetts Metaphysical College from the public.

Kim Shippey had over thirty years of experience in radio and television in South Africa and with the British Broadcasting Corporation in London before he became executive producer of Monitor Radio International in Boston. He's now a full-time senior writer for the Christian Science Sentinel.

Barbara Vining , former Associate Editor of the Journal and a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, told how her new take on the periodicals and the events of 9/11 has caused her to build bridges of peace and mutual understanding in her community. Mary ("Trinka") Trammell spoke with her about these experiences.

Imagine being brought in front of a magistrate to answer for your radical and unorthodox religious views. Trembling and quaking would probably come with the territory.