Article May 31, 1919 Issue

Among the Churches

Current Notes

Committee on Publication

Northumberland, England.—The year ending October 31, 1918, marked continued progress and a broadening out of the Christian Science movement throughout the county. The lectures, together with a careful distribution of literature, and especially the influence of The Christian Science Monitor, have contributed in no small degree to the good results of the year's work; the pamphlet "Christian Science Healing Not Medical Practice" has done good service among members of public health committees and members of Parliament. A growing friendliness on the part of editors toward Christian Science has been noticed. There have been fairly good reports of the lectures, and occasionally articles reprinted from the Monitor. All the letters of the committee on publication sent to the newspapers giving corrections and replying to critics, with one exception, have been inserted.

Much time and thought have again been given during the year to the duty of guarding the rights of Christian Scientists against restriction by public authority. The subject will need close watching for some time to come, in view of the persistent efforts in many quarters to establish a Ministry of Health. It cannot be too often repeated that Christian Scientists are always prepared to comply with the laws of the country at present in operation in regard to infectious diseases and laws relating to better housing and sanitary conditions, but they protest against all proposed legislation calculated to interfere with religious liberty and freedom of conscience, and especially against laws which would force one kind of medical treatment upon those who would prefer to rely upon spiritual means of healing.—Committee on Publication.

Calcutta, India.—The distribution of literature the past year was as follows: 258 Sentinels, 83 Journals, 4 Hérauts, 3 Herolds, 1913 Monitors, and 13 pamphlets. Sales included 123 copies of Science and Health and 113 copies of other books by Mrs. Eddy, as well as 20 copies of "Personal Contagion," 48 Hymnals, 630 pamphlets, 368 Quarterlies, and 6 copies of "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur. Ten copies of Science and Health and nine of "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur are now placed in public libraries in India. As this society is the only Christian Science organization in this country, applications for literature are received from far and wide.

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