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Whether at a shopping mall, on a college campus, or in the foyer of a church, a bulletin board is a great place for people to share information. You can learn a lot about an active community from reading local bulletin boards.

How many of us, do you suppose, have come into Christian Science through the help of some Reading Room? It's not unusual to read a passage in a testimony in the Journal or Christian Science Sentinel like the following ( Sentinel, August 8, 1988, p. 35): "I began going to a Christian Science Reading Room with my boss during our lunch hours.

Women have seldom been absent from the battlefield. Many have worked untiringly on behalf of the sick and wounded.

I still vividly recall the day the Sunday School superintendent of the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, to which I belong asked me to give specific thought to the subject "Prayer for children" and then share my thoughts at the next Sunday School teachers' meeting. Why me of all people? I wondered.

Over the years I've observed that many people whose lives illustrate longevity have a sincere interest in something such as current events, members of their family, friends, or some other activity. One of our friends, at the age of ninety, took up oil painting and was good at it.

Christian Scientists sometimes receive requests for healing through prayer from patients hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. And even when the request is from someone closer, healing may occur without the patient's being physically present with the healer.

Is our surrender to complacency helping to keep the world asleep in materialism? In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy warns, "Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Either God is All, or there is no God. There isn't any middle ground.

Most of us would agree that the media have a tremendous impact. But we do not have to pay the price of taking in the bad along with the good.

Christian Science shows that prayer is much more than a human activity of trying to reach out to God. Prayer brings to light in human consciousness the underlying truth of God's spiritual creation, man and the universe.