AMONG THE CHURCHES

CURRENT NOTES.

Pennsylvania.—Improvement in the attitude of the newspaper press was never more marked than during the past year. Of four hundred fifty-nine newspaper articles referring to Christian Science, only thirty required correction, and all but seven of the answers offered to editors were courteously accepted and printed. Like conditions are reported from other states. The attention of the committees on publication, once occupied largely with answering published criticism, may now be given more than before to protective and constructive work in other important directions. This office supplies The Christian Science Monitor regularly to forty of the more important newspapers throughout the state. Letters to the editors, informing them of the renewal of subscriptions with our compliments, brought a number of interesting replies. The unqualified approval of the Monitor by trained newspaper men warrants our friends in recommending it to others strictly on its merits as a newspaper.

During the past year this office sent out thirty-two thousand three hundred and two pieces of literature. Copies of the speech of the Hon. John D. Works in the United States Senate, opposing objectionable "health" legislation, were mailed to ten thousand public-school directors and teachers in Pennsylvania, and two thousand copies were distributed otherwise. The Thanksgiving issue of the Monitor was placed in six hundred eighty-nine newspaper offices, and items of interest were called to the attention of two hundred and two daily papers on several occasions.

Direct distribution of literature by the state committee on publication is necessarily along only the broadest lines. Local distribution committees, working under the general supervision of the state publication committee, are best qualified to handle the work in their respective communities, whose people and needs they know. Many churches and societies now have distribution committees, and others are preparing for this important step. One local committee distributed last year fifty-nine thousand seven hundred fifteen pieces of literature, in addition to subscriptions aggregating twenty-two thousand two hundred sixty-four copies, or eighty-one thousand nine hundred seventy-nine in all; another during the latter half of the year distributed twenty-three thousand five hundred seventeen pieces; other committees in proportion.—Report of Committee on Publication.

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March 15, 1913
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