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  It was only a few weeks before my wedding. Invitations had yet to be sent and guest accommodations needed to be arranged.

I watched my daughter fall in love two winters ago. She was a college student and he was an artist.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra's masterpiece Don Quixote is the story of a good-hearted but fumbling and impoverished nobleman who imagines himself to be the ideal knight. In the end, Quixote dies, but the lessons of his kindness remain as a legacy for his peasant sidekick, Sancho Panza.

Over the last few months, the Journal has occasionally offered timelines to show the historical context of an event in the Christian Science movement or in the life of its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy. In this issue, to accompany the second in a special series of articles on the history of The Herald of Christian Science, we offer a timeline showing world events surrounding the publication of the first issue of the German-language edition of the magazine, Der Christian Science Herold.

"TO PROCLAIM THE UNIVERSAL ACTIVITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRUTH"—MARY BAKER EDDY Articulating spiritual concepts—even when they are universal in nature—can be more difficult when the work involves new cultures, laws, and languages. In this second segment of a series celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Herald of Christian Science, you'll read about the efforts of the fairly new Church of Christ, Scientist, to communicate with a different culture and in a different language—and the response of German-speaking adherents to those efforts.

On eight Thursday evenings this spring, I negotiated the hills of San Francisco to attend a series of lectures on world religions at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Geary and Franklin streets. In the spirit of this progressive town, youthful activists with petitions for saving old-growth forests, along with collectors of blankets for the homeless, met the arriving crowd.

John Gould's first column appeared in The Christian Science Monitor in 1942. So he was already a veteran columnist by the time I found him at eight or nine.

You're strolling down the sidewalk, and just ahead you see there's a dislodged piece of pavement sticking up. What are the chances you'll trip on it? About nil—because you see it.

Many years ago a professor in my college philosophy class walked to the blackboard and wrote out a set of questions concerning the power of God and the nature of evil posed by the Greek philosopher Epicurus: • Is He willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is He impotent. • Is He able, but not willing? then is He malevolent.

Throughout her life, Mary Baker Eddy was actively interested in the world around her. An avid newspaper reader, she would have been well aware that Charles Guiteau shot US President James A.