Recently, when our attention was called to the spiritual value of The Herald of Christian Science, this Reading Room immediately subscribed to all the Heralds and displayed them not only on the showcase in the salesroom, but in the window on the street. We suddenly realized that we had been content to get along with only part of the literature our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has provided for progress in Christian Science. We were also aroused to the need of telling the public by way of our window that the Herald is available in Braille. Though we had never had a request for literature in Braille, we subscribed to this edition of the Herald, and also one alert church member gave her copies to the Reading Room.

As soon as our first Heralds arrived, we placed some of them in the window, including the Braille. The librarian and her assistants did specific metaphysical work in support of this progressive step. The executive board of our branch church was told of this and showed great interest.

In two days a man of foreign birth came into the Reading Room to ask if he could purchase the German edition of the Herald displayed in the window. We gladly sold it to him and replaced it with another edition of the Herald. He then expressed delight over the Braille edition on the showcase and said that he had seen the Braille Herald in the window. Since it reminded him of a friend who reads Braille, he purchased a copy, saying that through it he hoped to arouse his friend's interest in Christian Science.

Our Heralds have sold well ever since. We are grateful that we have seen the need of preparedness for every call for Christian Science literature, and also that we have made our preparedness known to the public through our window. We are happy to report that every copy of the Braille edition has been sold. We had thought that we might turn over to the distribution committee surplus copies when they became six months old. More gift subscriptions would make this helpful step possible.

A man seeking healing for a serious physical difficulty wandered from one medical doctor to another in a large eastern city of the United States. Always the doctors said the same thing: "I can do nothing for you." But one day a friend said, "Try Christian Science." Hopefully he visited a Christian Science practitioner listed in The Christian Science Journal and requested some explanation of Science. During his talk with the practitioner, he was advised to study the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. He asked for treatment in Science and in two weeks' time was completely healed.

Shortly after this he was sent as a delegate to a large conference across the Atlantic. While on board ship he met two Christian Scientists, one of whom, on discovering that he knew nothing about Christian Science Reading Rooms or Mrs. Eddy's prose writings other than Science and Health, recommended that he visit a Reading Room, where these works could be purchased. On arrival, although he was in a strange country, he sought out a Reading Room and bought Prose Works. The alert librarian discovered that the man did not know about the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, so she showed him how to read the Lesson and sold him a Quarterly.

During his three weeks' stay in this hitherto unknown city, this man not only told dozens of people about his healing in Christian Science and encouraged them to take up the study of the Christ Science, but took friends and new acquaintances to lectures, Sunday church services, and Wednesday testimony meetings. In one instance he located a school for the children of parents interested in Christian Science. And he took numerous friends to the Reading Room, where some of them bought or borrowed the textbook and bought the periodicals as well.

Before flying to another country, he went to the Reading Room to express his deep gratitude for what it had meant to him as a stranger in a strange country. Among other things, he said, "Each day as I sat in on the conference, I saw clearly that it is really Christian Science that all the world needs."

Many have found peace here in our Reading Room in a formerly occupied country. One woman of Polish birth was nearly in tears when our librarian gave her a religious article in Polish taken from The Christian Science Monitor. She said that she had been to all the book stores in our large European city but had not been able to find even a booklet in her native language. She was amazed to discover that the article given to her came from an American newspaper. She read the article and later talked briefly with the librarian. Suddenly she said, "Look, my leg is all right!" Then she told the librarian that for a long time there had been a conscpicuous growth on her leg. The truth revealed to her in that one visit to the Reading Room had healed her.