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Act now to be part of this extraordinary experience! This year's Annual Meeting includes remarkable opportunities to gain new views of Mary Baker Eddy in her "true light, and life. " Explore.

Annual Meeting provides an extraordinary opportunity to gather together as a Church family — as a worldwide congregation. It's a time for all of us to think more deeply about what our membership means and what The Mother Church stands for in our lives and in the world.

Nancy Kranich is associate dean of libraries at New York University and former president of the American Library Association. With 61,000 members, the ALA is the oldest and largest library association in the world.

Every invention, discovery, event, happens in a context of human knowledge and activity. This timeline provides a glimpse of some of the events before and during the establishment of Christian Science and the organization designed to preserve and forward it.

Gillian Gill is the author of a recent biography, Mary Baker Eddy (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, Radcliffe Biography Series, 1998). Dr.

TOWARD the end of May in 1902, Mary Baker Eddy wrote to some friends, with her usual depth of thought: "Those to whom I whispered the name I had given my 'book' laughed at me, and said it was not suitable, even as before, my literary friends had advised me not to write such a book; and my students had said nobody will understand it. But the courage of my convictions never failed.

Kathryn Koliss spent a decade working in alternative medicine, before entering Harvard Divinity School's Master of Divinity program. The focus of her studies is spirituality and healing, and her research revolves around the work of Mary Baker Eddy, healing accounts in the New Testament, and comparative cross-cultural religious healing practices.

Mary Baker Eddy's tastes in food were those of a Victorian New Englander. Boiled dinner (beef brisket boiled with vegetables) and baked beans were weekly fare, according to a notebook kept in about 1900 by her cook, Minnie Weygandt.

The primary function of a research library is to make information available and accessible. Often this information comes in the form of original documents.

There's a great way to visit The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity at any time of the day or night — go to the Library's Web site at www. marybakereddylibrary.