Article August 23, 1913 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

CURRENT NOTES

Gettysburg, Pa .—There being no Christian Science organization at Gettysburg, the operation of temporary Christian Science reading-rooms, in connection with the recent semicentennial and reunion, was conducted under the auspices of the state committee on publication. Two commodious parlors in the heart of the town were engaged, and supplied with all of Mrs. Eddy's works and the publications of The Christian Science Publishing Society. The ceremonial days of the reunion were July 1 to 4 inclusive, but the reading-rooms were open from noon on Friday, June 27, until noon on Saturday, July 5. During these eight days approximately sixty-four hundred copies of The Christian Science Monitor were given out, or an average of eight hundred per day, the number increasing from one hundred and eighty-three the first day to seventeen hundred the last day. Most of these papers were taken voluntarily by persons who stopped at the reading-room windows, where Journals, Sentinels, Herolds, and pamphlets were also exhibited for free distribution. The Monitor not distributed to visitors at the rooms were taken to the great camp by automobile and passed out among the veterans. Eight hundred pamphlets were given out at the rooms, in addition to about three hundred and thirty copies of the periodicals.

There were many expressions of approval of the Christian Science literature, and appreciation of the opportunity to obtain it under such circumstances. A veteran to whom a Monitor was given at the camp, ran in to his tent-mates exclaiming, "Boys, here's the best paper in the world!" A clergyman stopped at the reading-room window and asked if he might have a Monitor, saying he had heard of it but had not seen it. He returned for the next day's issue with a complimentary remark as to the excellence of the paper. One of two clergymen who came into the rooms said he was a regular subscriber to the Monitor. Not a few of those who stopped to get literature voiced a desire to know more about Christian Science, and some inquired where the textbook could be obtained in their home communities.

Correspondence.

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