Article September 1, 1928 Issue

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

The secular press in northern California, with rare exceptions, continues to be not only fair but friendly to Christian Science. Editors make no adverse comments on our religion or its followers; ordinarily, they delete unfavorable references made by correspondents or in sermons and addresses. The occasional adverse criticisms of Christian Science which appear in the press simply afford opportunities to correct existing misconceptions and misinformation. There has been a marked abatement of unjust criticisms of Christian Science in religious periodicals and in medical journals. A few medical writers are still inclined to attack Christian Science, but the tendency of editors of medical journals is to refrain from mentioning it.

The Christian Science Monitor continues to grow in editorial esteem. This is evidenced by the increasing number of reprints which appear in the press.

Success continues to be experienced in removing from schools textbooks which attack Christian Science. Assurance has been given by members of the State Board of Education that hereafter the manuscripts of books to be adopted will be read carefully to detect medical or sectarian propaganda and veiled attacks upon religion. Members of the Board of Education were found to be in accord with the views of leading educators that in all health teaching emphasis should be placed not upon disease, but upon health, or, as the United States Bureau of Education, in its January, 1924, issue of School Life, expressed it: "Emphasize health always as a positive rather than as a negative thing. Present health to children in terms of beauty, strength, and joy." In fact, a member of the Board of Education has stated that future textbooks on health subjects must conform to this.

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