Article July 31, 1926 Issue

Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1925

State of Nebraska.

For a number of years our newspapers have exhibited a steadily increasing fairness toward Christian Science, and all the indications are that this attitude has shown additional improvement during the past year. Editorial comment in Nebraska publications, with the exception of one newspaper, has been practically free from misleading remarks on Christian Science. Of the fifty-one corrections prepared by your Committees, all save two were published. Several of the misleading statements appeared in syndicated so-called health articles, and some were news items regarding the activities of individuals who have become dissociated from Christian Science. A number of unjust statements were in the form of letters submitted to the newspapers by their readers, and it is but fair to our editors to say that not all of such letters were published.

Most of our principal editors are quite well convinced that news items instigated by opponents of Christian Science, which were once regarded by some as having news value, now receive scant attention from their readers; hence such items are usually rejected. Our sectarian papers were entirely free from unfavorable comment during the year. Through news itms, editorials, excerpts from lectures, reprints from The Christian Science Monitor and our other authorized literature, and corrections by the Committee on Publication, the Cause of Christian Science has had by far the most extensive and favorable attention by Nebraska publications ever accorded our beloved movement for a corresponding period.

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