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" The first time I heard the organ in the Extension of The Mother Church was at Annual Meeting in 1981," commented Ed Starner, current Mother Church organist. "I was awestruck by its magnificence and beauty.

The commentator said we need "a new kind of old. " She works in the geriatric field and was discussing problems associated with an aging population.

I Had Been Thinking About this statement in Science and Health: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.

" What Can I Tell You about this book that would make you want to read it?" I asked my neighbors as I handed them a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. My friend surprised me with her emotional response: "I know what you can tell me—you can tell me if all the things we have to go through in this life are worth it! I mean, is there something that makes all the suffering and pain and trouble worthwhile?" I was so struck by the yearning in her voice that I could barely nod a "yes" to her.

Anyone can tell you that without joy life can be pretty dull. Joy is actually indispensable.

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I have taught comparative literature at a university in northern California for many years, and increasingly I am finding that my primary activity as a teacher is to pray. I used to spend hours researching and making class plans (and I still do research and planning).

Alexis Van Pelt is a high-school senior who interned in an elementary school classroom as part of her senior project. When I began my internship in a first-grade classroom, I was immediately inspired by the children's purity and spirituality.

A longtime teacher, with tongue firmly in cheek, compiled a list of student bloopers, actual passages culled from pupils' essays. For instance: "Homer also wrote the Oddity.

In May we looked at early Jewish education of children. It is very likely that, at first, Christian education of the young shared at least some of the characteristics of the Jewish approach.