Article December 9, 1911 ISSUE

A MONITOR MEETING

JULIA BAKER.

The article "A Great Missionary Movement," which appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel of Dec. 3, 1910, together with reports of "Clean Journalism" meetings held in New England and in Chicago, aroused a desire on the part of some of the members of the distribution committee of a western city to awaken a greater interest in The Christian Science Monitor among the students of Christian Science in that place.

The first step taken was to secure the interest and support of the entire committee, and then the official boards and readers of the two churches were enlisted. Several evenings were devoted to this purpose, which resulted in a joint meeting of all students, also members of any Christian Science church, at which each officer of both churches and each member of the distribution committee chose a special page or department of the paper and read selections therefrom to show the high character and interesting treatment of the subjects dealt with. Political and social affairs, industrial and financial conditions, and the business situation, the progress of modern methods and inventions, advertising methods, art, literature, music, the peace movement, travel, household, and children's pages, famous people, etc., were among the subjects briefly touched upon; also the general character of the editorials, and a comparison was made between head-lines that appeared in the daily press and in The Christian Science Monitor of the same date. The latter were noticeably practical and encouraging.

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