Article May 10, 1924 Issue

Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1923

During the past year it has been necessary to correct but one editorial comment. Evidently Vermont publishers are learning the wisdom of publishing only the truth about Mrs. Eddy, Christian Science, and Christian Scientists. For the State of Texas.

In June a copy of the large brochure of The Christian Science Benevolent Association sanatorium near Boston was sent by this office to each state senator and representative in Texas. It was given to these officials that they might have information relative to the work carried on by Christian Scientists in providing a place for the sick. It was also to answer the charge made on the floor of the Texas legislature that Christian Scientists have no special homes in which to care for the sick.

The absence, particularly in recent months, of attacks on Christian Science appearing in newspapers seems much more significant, perhaps, of the increasing disfavor with which the average editor looks upon the printing of such attacks, than of the falling off of such articles submitted for printing. The work of a Committee on Publication is preventive as well as corrective; so he and his assistants have frequently interviewed editors to protest against the printing of attacks on Christian Science. Such interviews have borne good fruit, as may be illustrated by the fact that such an interview recently resulted in a well-known newspaper's refusal to print an attack on Christian Science that had been submitted, and an announcement editorially that in the future "no attacks upon specific denominations" would be printed. Formerly this paper's columns had been wideopen for such attacks.

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