Article March 17, 1928 Issue

Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1927

Midlothian, Scotland.

Six letters were written to the press, and five were published. During the year The Christian Science Monitor has been quoted in the Edinburgh Evening News, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, the Edinburgh and Leith Observer, the Scottish Temperance News, the United Free Church Record, and the Scottish Educational Journal. Evidence is accumulating to prove that the Monitor is being regarded with more and more appreciation by the staffs of newspapers in this field.

In 1924 the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland instucted its "Committee on Church Life and Social Problems" to "inquire into and consider the whole subject" of spiritual healing. The report presented by the committee to the Assembly last May made it clear that Christian Scientists authorized to speak for Christian Science had not been consulted, and that even if authorized Christian Science literature had been read its effect on the thought of the committee had been practically nullified by perusal of much worthless literature, merely calculated to hinder anyone seeking the truth. The committee arrived at the conclusion that, while the subject was of "vital interest and importance," it was much too big for them, and therefore they could not carry their inquiry to a satisfactory completion; but they "would welcome the appointment of a commission of representative men to consult further on the whole question." When the report came up in the Assembly, a prominent member endeavored to maintain that there was no such thing as spiritual healing, but he was at once repudiated by a considerable proportion of the members present, and the committee's finding was adopted. The searchings of heart indicated in the United Free Church's attitude toward this matter are welcome signs to Christian Scientists that the day is steadily approaching when Mrs. Eddy's prophecy on page 22 of "Pulpit and Press" will be fulfilled: "If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, will approximate the understanding of Christian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will give to Christianity his new name, and Christendom will be classified as Christian Scientists."

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