Dear Friends -

Welcome to this double issue of the Reading Room Newsletter. 

Prayer for Peace -  Come read JSH articles that support your prayers for peace in the world.  They are bookmarked on the RR computers and laid out for your convenience in the Reference Room.  

Mary Baker Eddy Library -  Read this exciting account of a Jewish couple who fled Nazi-occupied Europe and became prolific writers for the Monitor. 

Vintage Monitor - I recently learned about an article by Mary Beecher Longyear that details the history of Asa Gilbert Eddy.  We have framed this interesting account for the reading room. 
 
NFCC - Remember our neighbors in need through monthly donations to the North Fulton Community Charities.  Food items are collected in the sales room and cash donations accepted at the Sunday service. 

With love,

Andrea Hunter, Librarian

Hallie Keel, Asst. Librarian / Editor

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Great occasion have we to rejoice that our nation, which fed her starving foe, — already murdering her peaceful seamen and destroying millions of her money, — will be as formidable in war as she has been compassionate in peace.

May our Father-Mother God, who in times past hath spread for us a table in the wilderness and “in the midst of our enemies,” establish us in the most holy faith, plant our feet firmly on Truth, the rock of Christ, the “substance of things hoped for” — and fill us with the life and understanding of God, and good will towards men.

Mary Baker Eddy
(Christian Science versus Pantheism 14:27–11)

Prominent Viennese-Jewish Journalist
Escapes Nazi Occupied Vienna to Work for
The Christian Science Monitor

For Ernest Pisko, his wife Risa opposing the Nazi's prior to WWII meant imprisonment, forced marches, and exile from their country, before finding a new life and new purpose in the United States.

To the Monitor, it meant hiring a writer with a sophisticated understanding of Central and Eastern European affairs, who would go on to win Austria’s highest award for his coverage of the country’s postwar development.  For more on this story click the link below.  

Prayer helped me

I was with my family at a garden center. I didn’t feel very well.

I asked Mummy if I could go to the restroom, and she said yes. I went in there to have some time to think. 

This is what I thought. I knew that God was with me. In Christian Science Sunday School, I have been learning that God’s love is everywhere and that I am always in His loving arms. I prayed a children’s prayer written by Mary Baker Eddy that I learned in Sunday School. It goes like this: 

Father-Mother God, 
          Loving me,—
Guard me when I sleep; 
Guide my little feet 
          Up to Thee. 
                      (Poems, p. 69)

I wasn’t going to sleep just then, but praying that prayer helped me feel God’s love. Then I said the “Daily Prayer” and the Lord’s Prayer.*

CAROLINA VILCAPOMA — STAFF

I felt much better after praying. So I went to find Mummy. She told me that she had been praying, too. I was feeling good again as we went back to the rest of my family. 

Thank you, God.

*You can find the “Daily Prayer” in the Church Manual (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 41) and the Lord’s Prayer in chapter 6 of the Bible’s book of Matthew.