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Here's a brief report from the librarian of the Jointly-Maintained Downtown Christian Science Reading Room in Seattle. It shows how the Reading Room played a significant role in the community at the time of the World Trade Organization meeting last year.

It happened every Wednesday evening at the testimony meeting in my church. I wanted to speak up and say "Thank you, God," but instead I stayed silent, frozen in my seat.

The Reformation's influence on the history of the Christian Church in Great Britain was substantial, and without it, the religious education movement in England could not have begun. But the social changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century were as dramatic as the theological changes begun by Martin Luther three hundred years earlier.

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.