A friend of mine told me that she had seen a single magpie in the garden and that this was supposed to be a bad omen, but because she had applied an antidote by saying, "Good morning, Sir," she felt quite safe.
Jet planes thrust through the clouds; automobiles outpace the winds; television pictures flash almost instantaneously around the globe; a rocket as tall as a thirty-story building shudders on its launching pad, then streaks away towards a distant planet.
A number of years ago our daughter, at that time aged five, was riding a horse around our property and unintentionally signaled him to make a sharp right turn.
Officers of branch churches and individuals who have occasion to correspond with The Christian Science Board of Directors, with the Clerk and the Treasurer of The Mother Church, and with the heads of departments of The Mother Church Offices are requested to place their addresses on their letters and to write their signatures plainly.
A directory of all Churches of Christ, Scientist, and Christian Science Societies, including the hours of their services and information about their Reading Rooms, appears monthly in The Christian Science Journal.
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