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Methuselah, according to the Bible , lived just short of a thousand years. Suppose his life had spanned this last millennium instead of beginning before Noah's day.

Some people are looking forward with anticipation and excitement to what they believe will be a newness of some sort at the beginning of the next millennium. Others are wary, uncertain, and a bit anxious about what lies ahead.

A favorite walk of mine is along the New England coast. It begins on a long stretch of land over beautiful, hilly moors.

Would you trust a brick building put together with mush as the mortar? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? No matter how solid the bricks, the successful binding together of those individual bricks to produce a strong structure can only be in proportion to the integrity of the mortar. And if every single brick is not produced with the same degree of integrity, the entire building could be weakened.

It Was the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, and I had been praying to follow Mary Baker Eddy's directive "The prayers in Christian Science churches shall be offered for the congregations collectively and exclusively. " Manual of The Mother Church , Art.

People Have Often asked how we are finding the best resources to provide the expertise needed in the restoration and renewal work. The keynote in finding the individuals who are managing and carrying out this work is their quality of thought.

" I Can't Wait to see what this will do to my life!" a young woman said recently as she bought Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures at a Christian Science Reading Room. All over Australia and New Zealand, the transforming message of Science and Health is stirring thought and changing lives as it becomes more widely known.

A Specific Idea on how my branch church in Richardson, Texas, could bless our community kept coming to thought. It was to ask our neighborhood library if we could set up a display of the Traveling Historical Bible Exhibit available from The Mother Church.

The Exhibit '"This is woman's hour.

Not Too Long Ago I became aware of sensations and pain in my jaw that reminded me of a tooth problem I used to have. At that time a dentist had said the tooth would have to be extracted.