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In an age of instant communication by telephone or fax machine, we don't always remember the excitement we once felt when receiving a long-awaited letter from family or friends. Perhaps a child away from home at camp or school still feels some of that enthusiasm today.

Every day since the October 1993 Journal arrived, I have looked at and loved the photograph on the cover and the other one of the two little children on the inside page. Please express my appreciation to the artists that photographed these dear little ones.

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.

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 response has been enormous.

It's been a year and a half since hurricane Andrew swept through South Florida. Much restoration work has gone on since that time.

One day my wife and I were called by our daughter's school and told that she had caught her finger in a door as it was closing. When we came to pick her up, we assured all those who were lovingly concerned that she would be given good care.

A vital continuity and progress is nurtured from year to year by associations of the pupils of authorized Christian Science teachers. This work might be compared to the tender, yearly gift of love from his mother to the prophet Samuel.

In part three of "Conversations with Readers" we look at the First Readers' duties in conducting Sunday services and Wednesday evening meetings. (Parts one and two ran in December and January.

From early childhood many of us fall unthinkingly into ineffective ways of withdrawing from problems and pressures—even from the sometimes humdrum nature of our lives. Whether our experience would seem to include too much or too little stimulation, it's as if we inherently realize that mortal existence is just not satisfying, and attempt to escape in some fashion.

There's a scene in Hamlet by William Shakespeare in which Hamlet learns of corruption in his country. He knows in his heart that he should expose the villainy, but in his mental struggle to avoid that responsibility and go on with his carefree life, he exclaims: "The time is out of joint.