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Several days each week I serve in the Reading Room of my branch church in New York City. We're in a university neighborhood, and many of the residents around us attend the university.

A series of reports, comments, and reflections on the Restoration and Renewal Program at The Mother Church. At the time the Extension of The Mother Church was being built, Christian Scientists realized that people were wondering about the deeper significance of their new building.

Recently in my prayers for the community, these words from the Bible came to me: "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?" Isa. 43:19.

I recently looked at the first draft of an article of mine that was later published in the Christian Science periodicals. While its tone was sincere, its focus could have been clearer and its sentences smoother.

The Forth Bridge in Scotland is a famous cantilevered, double-span tubular steel structure completed in 1890. Considerably over one mile long it carries the railroad from Edinburgh across the estuary of the River Forth toward the Highlands of northern Scotland.

Imagine a journal entry of a university freshman: What an overwhelming first week of classes I've had. Met so many people from all over! A full course load this quarter.

Since I took early retirement from extremely active work several years ago, I've thought many times about that word retire. "Retired from what?" I ask myself.

There was a time in my life when I felt completely unappreciated, unloved, even unacknowledged by my immediate family. Those people to whose care I had completely devoted myself for many years seemed to feel nothing at all for me in return.

Last month we published the first of two installments of reminiscences of the Discoverer of Christian Science by Alfred Farlow. Included in part one were his "first impressions with regard to [Mary Baker Eddy]," and his "early impressions with regard to the truthfulness of Christian Science, its mission, demonstrability, and future prospects.

After the Master, Christ Jesus , was arrested and taken to Pontius Pilate to be tried, he stated: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.