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A word about the Middle Ages Most of us romanticize the Middle Ages. We picture knights of King Arthur's Round Table, castles, lords and ladies, wandering minstrels, and crusades to liberate the Holy Land.

Most of the time, when a friend calls out, "Where are you?" you have no difficulty replying, "Down here in the kitchen" or "Out here on the porch. " But have you ever had the experience of waking up in a strange place, totally disoriented and not knowing where you were? For a few moments, until you are more completely awake, you know you are someplace—but you can't remember where! One day I began thinking about the question posed in the title of this article.

Health is a major concern today. How to achieve a healthier body often appears to consume human thought.

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.

A few months ago, an event happened at the White House in the United States that has changed the Middle Eastern landscape and set an example for the world. The joy of Christmas came early as two sworn enemies—Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization—signed a framework for peace.

—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.