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I was thinking about young people—about peer pressure and media influence urging them to get involved in drinking, drugs, and promiscuity. A new visitor came in, wanting to learn about Christian Science.

This experience from a contributor in Ebolowa, Republic of Cameroon, was first published in The Herald of Christian Science ( French Edition ). I returned from the frontier free of warlike thoughts.

" Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. " This statement from Romans perfectly summarizes what Christian Science means to me, and I would love to share a healing that took place through Science.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25 About eleven years ago, not long before riots swept through Soweto, the black township that has become synonymous with South Africa's racial struggles, my wife and I received a letter from friends in Johannesburg.

MANY OF US interact daily with friends, co-workers—even family members—from cultures, ethnic groups, and races other than our own. There's a richness in this variety, and it can bring together the best of different backgrounds.

I couldn't imagine what I had done to make my co-worker in my new office dislike me so. Unwarranted criticism and gossip assailed me.

Even at the darkest of times, when we reach out with our whole heart to God for help, we can feel His tender love. This invariably brings peace and healing.

SUDDENLY THERE'S THE Internet—that global computer network we've been hearing so much about. It took us all by surprise.

TODAY MANY PEOPLE are hungering for deeper meaning in their lives—for lasting and practical spiritual answers. The evidence of this newfound hunger for spirituality is being written about, talked about, and explored in newspapers and magazines, on television and in movies, in college classrooms and halls of government.

There was a time when I began to feel perplexed by mistakes I was making. A series of mistakes in a project that was important to me made me pull back and say, "Just a minute— this is not the kind of work that I should expect of myself.