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—A historic peace accord is signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. —In the former Yugoslavia, civil war rages.

Many people think of the Christian Science Reading Room as mainly a quiet place for research and study with a librarian on hand to answer questions. This special meeting explored a very different concept—that of the Reading Room as a lively place of interaction with visitors, a resource center, where the librarian's mission is to lead the visitor actively, prayerfully, to the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.

This By-Law, Article III, Section 1, was a gift of Mrs. Eddy's to mankind.

Many questions come to The Mother Church from Christian Scientists seeking guidance on reading in branch churches. "Conversations with Readers in Christian Science churches" comes in response to these questions.

Many of us are looking for a true sense of worth. How can it be found? The Bible teaches that worth has its source in our relationship to God as His offspring.

When readers of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy prove the laws it teaches, people notice. The woman relating the first account below and the man relating the second, have found that opportunities to share the book happen naturally because of the way they live their lives.

Can thought alone cause harm? We've all heard such phrases as "a look that could kill," and we hardly need the film Fatal Attraction to show the destructive nature of sensualism and envy. A typical day's news offers plenty of "real-life" stories of mental and physical brutality, often reported with such drama and repetition as to blur the line between news and fiction.

Editors' note: In our study of Christian Science it is natural to want to share the inspiration that comes to us. We long to follow Jesus' counsel "What ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

For many people it's natural to pay heed to the relationship between health and thought, and we often hear today of "the mind-body relationship. " Hypnotherapy, holistic medicine, and visualization are only a few of the current systems attempting to relate what people think to how they feel.

I had been living for many years in the middle of the violence in Northern Ireland, on a little piece of road in between the two factions of our divided community. On top of all the violence in the community, there was a lot of violence in my own home, and I was what can only be described as a battered wife.