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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.

No one likes to have an uninvited visitor barge in on a special occasion. An intruder interrupts and can change the tone of the occasion, whether it is a wedding, a dinner party, or some other celebration.

A series of five special meetings was held on Tuesday following this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, to consider the transforming impact of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The meetings looked specifically at the relationship of Science and Health to five Church Manual- based activities.

The great Bible scholar and translator Jerome was an early church father and the most learned man of his age. He was also a man of contradictions— generous and affectionate toward his friends yet merciless with his enemies, passionate about the causes he championed yet dedicated to an ascetic life that made him deny all passions.

The Christian Science periodicals have been helping and healing readers for generations. As this author found when she discovered an issue of the Journal that was published in 1917, spiritual ideas have a timeless relevance that inspires the thought and moves the heart.

Much healing thought goes into the preparation of an article for the Christian Science periodicals. The following letter, sent to us with the proof of an article the author had written for the Christian Science periodicals, was particularly moving and enlightening.

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.