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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.

Many times throughout the day we have to make important choices, and through prayer and right reasoning we are able to come to good decisions. In a sense, we are always being forced to decide between two views of reality.

The unsuppressible power of the Scriptures' message became quite evident in England during the fourteenth century. Near the end of the century, English, rather than French, was once again becoming the language spoken by the upper classes, and portions of the Bible began to be translated into English.

Spirituality offends material-mindedness. Christ Jesus' persecution and crucifixion are history's primary examples of this.

When our boys were little, they enjoyed their baths. They played in that sudsy, soapy world, splashing and "swimming" and soaping.