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I actually began writing this two years ago on the one hundredth anniversary of Mary Baker Eddy's reorganization of her Church. Thinking about this anniversary has meant a lot to me.

My friend laughed as she described the disaster of the soup. Her family's favorite meal was gumbo, a thick spicy soup including seafood, vegetables, and rice.

At a time when the essential Christian nature of Christian Science needs to be communicated more broadly to the world, we wanted to share the following short piece from the Christian Science Sentinel, December 2, 1911. —The Editors The tenets of The Mother Church should be frequently and carefully studied by all who desire to live and prove the teachings of Christian Science not only for their own growth and aid, but for the information they are thereby enabled to impart to others.

"The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me. " So wrote Martin Luther, the great reformer who fought to give the Bible to the German people.

A woman in England tells how natural and joyful it is to give a copy of Science and Health for the first time: "A man came to measure my kitchen window for new blinds. On the way out he commented on the fact that I had a Bible on my coffee table.

Have your prayers become routine? Have they digressed into thoughtless repetitions of familiar words, which don't particularly inspire or help you feel closer to God? Probably many of us have been faced with this challenge at some time or another. When this occurs, it is helpful to evaluate not only what we are praying but how we are praying.

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.