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Many years ago, I was healed of an illness through prayer while visiting a city far from my home. The next day, as I walked through a crowd to get to a meeting, I saw people differently.

As we noted earlier in this series, Robert Raikes is given the main credit for starting the Sunday School movement in 1780, although some Sunday Schools existed earlier in England. Efforts to help children in North America began between 1735 and 1737, dur ing a missionary trip across the Atlantic by the founder of the Methodist Church, John Wesley.

During the first stages of construction of our new house, which I had designed and for which I was acting as the building contractor, I was repeatedly insulted and threatened by one of the foremen doing the concrete work. He was loud, belligerent, and constantly complained that some of the things required in the specifications were unnecessary and ridiculous, not the way he was used to doing things.

One Afternoon , my sister and I were headed for the mountains to pick up our children from camp. As we drove along, we talked about healings our children had had through prayer.

How can the Bible have a role in defining moral life in today's culturally diverse environment? Even among those whose background is rooted in Biblical tradition, there are many perspectives on its meaning and application. Also, it can be argued that the Bible was written in cultural times quite different from our own.

I'M a dedicated mountain hiker, one who enjoys the peaks above the tree line. The view from there is boundless, a "reach out and touch the face of God" kind of experience.

IT'S WONDERFUL to feel at home wherever you are. But what if you don't feel at ease in some situation? One response is to get out of that situation.

Ever hear the one about the farmer who practiced lifting his 2,000-pound cow every day? When asked how he could lift so heavy an animal, he answered thoughtfully, "Well, I started when she was just a few days old. " To me, that little anecdote is more than clever.

As Journal readers wrestle through questions and issues facing society today—and pray about them—they sometimes share these questions, and the answers they arrive at, with us. Here's one such question and answer.

When I was growing up, water for our family's home came from a shallow surface well, 15 feet deep. It was linked to a water system that fed a river behind our house and was controlled by a dam 30 miles upstream.