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I've been asked, "Why do you write for the Christian Science periodicals?" Well, I suppose there have been times when I really did think that I was trying to do the writing on my own. And many of those efforts ended in rejections and the expenditure of much time that didn't result in publication.

Photographs and transcriptions of a stone fragment bearing the first known reference outside the Bible to the House of David, a ruling dynasty presumably founded by King David in the 10th century B. C.

Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. " This is the answer Peter gave to Christ Jesus' question, ".

A student of Christian Science knows that healings through prayer may sometimes come with surprising ease. Biblical truths, clarified through study of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, begin to take on fresh meaning and relevance.

Throughout this year, Christian Scientists have been giving special thought to a significant event that took place one hundred years ago: Mary Baker Eddy's ordination of the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as pastor over The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and its worldwide branches. Letters of gratitude have poured into The Mother Church for the meetings held throughout the world in recognition of the pastor's impact on individual lives, church congregations, and society.

In January of 1992, a letter went out from The Christian Science Board of Directors to Christian Science teachers and members of Christian Science Students Associations, asking them to share how they, either individually or in their local churches, demonstrated "a pioneering path of relevance for church" within their communities. The letter reminded readers of a sequence of Journal articles that ran in April, May, and June of 1991, bringing out examples of pioneering church work going on around the globe.

One hundred years ago last month, the roof construction on the Original Edifice of The Mother Church in Boston was completed. Yvonne Fettweis, Manager of the Church History department of The Mother Church, shares with Journal readers some of the spiritual import of that special event.

At the beginning of March 1945, just before the end of the last World War, my mother was with us three little children on a small steamship, which was really only an excursion boat, in the storm-tossed Baltic Sea. We had been told that this would be the last vessel to leave before the enemy forces reached the area.

Finally we were going to get away on a vacation! Most of the family members were going with us, but one teenager had to stay behind because of job obligations. We would be making responsible arrangements for being in touch with our son while we were away.

It occurred to me one day that heredity could be seen as referring to a lot more than just the transference of physical characteristics from parent to offspring, or from past mortals to present. And I began seeing the whole concept of heredity from a new perspective.