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On Monday evening, June 7, following the 1993 Annual Meeting, a special fruitage meeting was held. Twenty church members from around the world told of their own experiences in reading Science and Health and of how they had felt its transforming power.

Editors' note: We thought you 'd enjoy—as we did—listening in on the following talk given to a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The speaker is Barbara-jean Stinson, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science.

The words of St. Paul to the Corinthians both encourage and challenge us: "My beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Although an usher in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, may seem only to be greeting people, handing out copies of the Christian Science Quarterly or the Christian Science Hymnal , or showing someone to an available seat, the activity actually includes so much more. For example, the usher helps set the tone for the church service by praying in support of the harmony of the service and the prospering of the spiritual ideas included in the sermon.

Have you ever stood on the shore of a lake in winter when the fog was rolling in and tried vainly to see something beyond the bleak and dreary scene before you? Though you can't see it through the fog, you still know there is life on the other side of the lake. When the death of a loved relative occurred, my sense of life became confused and bleak.

Recently I found myself involved in a conflict with several friends. Each strongly felt that his or her view and approach were more right than the others'.

Parents and children— each group is blessed with a unique role to play in bringing God's goodness to light in universal salvation. And ideally, each generation will recognize and accept its responsibility to help the next to surpass its own in spiritual enlightenment and the practical living of it.

The three-year teaching career of Christ Jesus as recorded in the Gospels is rich with practical examples of how to apply the spiritual law of being to the human condition. Much can be learned about healing sickness and sin by examining the relationship between Jesus' works and words.

Red sandstone. Have you ever wondered why these words are in the definition of Adam in the Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.

For centuries the city of Geneva was a haven for political and religious refugees. In the mid-1500s religious exiles from continental Europe and England fled by the thousands to Geneva to escape persecution and map out the future of the Protestant Reformation.