Article April 14, 1928 Issue

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

There are now twelve newspapers throughout Colorado publishing excerpts from the Christian Science Sunday Lesson-Sermons, thus bringing each week to newspaper readers generally, healing quotations from the Bible with correlative quotations from our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The healing and liberating effect of bringing weekly before people generally what Christian Science actually teaches with reference to certain subjects, will be apparent to all earnest students of Christian Science. These excerpts are prepared in this office and sent to Assistant Committees, when arrangements for publication have been made in given communities. It is hoped that these excerpts may soon be prepared and forwarded in mat form, so as to insure accuracy in publication.

The splendid spirit of fair play on the part of newspaper editors in publishing corrective statements with reference to pamphlet and pulpit criticisms of Christian Science, where there has been no previous newspaper item on the subject, is cause for much gratitude.

The praise of the prohibition survey in The Christian Science Monitor, and such statements as frequently appear in the daily press in commenting on the character of the Monitor, indicate the extent to which it is appreciated by those not yet within our ranks. One newspaper said that the Monitor is "conceded among newspapers as of the very highest type." Another said that the Monitor "is considered by many as the best [newspaper] published." And another prominent publication well observes the desirability of reading good news such as is published in the Monitor, rather than the degrading sensationalism which characterizes many other newspapers, concluding with this observation: "For your own sake, read more character-building items."