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Democracy is on many people's minds right now. People all over the world are reaching out for it.

Mary Baker Eddy , who founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908, used interesting verbs to describe the functions of each of the periodicals she established. She wrote of these periodicals: "The first was The Christian Science Journal , designed to put on record the divine Science of Truth; the second I entitled Sentinel , intended to hold guard over Truth, Life, and Love; the third, Der Herold der Christian Science , to proclaim the universal activity and availability of Truth; the next I named Monitor , to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent.

A fifteen-story office building was built a few years ago in the downtown area of our city near where I work. This new building was appropriately named "Renaissance," because it represented the first major construction in that part of downtown in over fifty years.

Dear church friend: I just received your letter, and I know how you feel. When people we greatly trust are in disagreement on a church issue, it can be confusing, indeed! You mentioned a proposal that is brought up time and again in your branch church by members who feel certain the membership is amiss in not passing it.

Have you ever prayed about a physical trouble and then found yourself checking out some part of the human anatomy to see if it's behaving as it should? Now, be honest. I know I have.

We all would like a dependable income, steady job, future financial security. But material resources have a way of being suddenly disrupted.

On Monday evening, June 7, following the 1993 Annual Meeting, a special fruitage meeting was held in the Extension of The Mother Church. 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.

Recently it was brought to our attention that the Editors of the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Quarterly focused their summer 1992 issue on the topic of women and spirituality. We obtained a copy of the magazine and, after reading the profiles it contained, asked permission to share excerpts from the issue with our readers.

Jesus' great commission to every disciple is inescapable. Even so, lecturers are still asked why it is that their messages are directed more toward the public, especially the newcomer, and apparently less toward directly providing fresh inspiration for Christian Scientists.

" Have you ever seen a young person—eight, ten, or twelve years old—without parents, without a home, living on his own on the streets? There are millions of these young people living in the streets of the world. Just in Latin America there are more than twenty million young persons thrown on the streets.