Article June 7, 1913 Issue

In a recent editorial a statement appears which was evidently...

Albert E. Miller

Waterbury (Conn.) American

In a recent editorial a statement appears which was evidently written without weighing the matter carefully on all sides, and I desire to offer a few words of additional comment on the subject. You say, "The value of publicity is only too well appreciated by every experienced campaigner. The Christian Scientists were almost the first moral or social propagandists to understand it, and for a time they used the press with great freedom and with perfect willingness on the part of the press." This statement charges Christian Scientists with having taken the initiative in using the columns of the daily press to set forth their doctrine. You will be interested to learn, I am sure, that with Christian Scientists this publicity was not sought, but resulted from the necessity of correcting misunderstandings of this faith and answering the frequent attacks made upon it.

The frequency with which Christian Science was misrepresented in the daily press some years ago clearly showed that a lack of understanding of the subject existed which could hardly be allowed to stand. Fair play, to say the least, required that Christian Scientists be given better treatment, and committees were appointed by the churches of this faith to see that as far as possible misstatements involving Christian Science should not go uncorrected. As a result, editors of newspapers and other periodicals have gladly complied with requests for space in which misstatements concerning Christian Science could be corrected, and the public has thus received greater enlightenment on the subject. Nothing could be fairer, and one sees an attack upon this faith in the public prints much less frequently in these days; in fact, it may be said that religion generally has been benefited by this course of action.

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