Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1929

Texas.

This report covers another gratifying period of growth in our state. The information of six new societies, a society becoming a church, and a noticeable increase in respect for our religion and practice on the part of legislators and editors, are the outstanding features of our official year just ended.

Editors, have been conspicuously fair and courteous this term; and while more letters and articles were submitted than during any previous year of your present committee's incumbency, no corrections were declined.

As stated in the special legislative report, a few editors made request of your committee for statements regarding our status under the medical laws of the state. One editor, in asking for such statements, said, "I think you will find that newspapers in general will be good to your Cause;" and so they proved to be. Another publisher, under the caption "Fees for Practitioners," laid stress on the injustice our medical statutes impose on spiritual healing, in forbidding charges for this ministry. Other editors made special mention of the question; all of which shows that our Cause is now securing a fair hearing in the press, as it is before the legislature. As indicated in the special report on legislative activities, the interest of editors and legislators was aroused by having the formal documents mentioned therein placed in their hands before the legislature convened.

Editors have been responsive to our protests against erroneous advertising appearing in the columns of their periodicals, and have permitted corrections thereof, when necessary. In some cases no corrections were asked; but, when offending errors have been pointed out, editors have assured us that no such advertising would again appear.

Much credit is due our newspaper for the increasing respect and tolerance manifested towards our religion and practice on the part of legislators, editors, and the general public. Editors the state over have been generous in their praise of The Christian Science Monitor, and have reprinted scores of editorials therefrom, some of our papers carrying as many as three Monitor reprints each week.

The Monitor came in for much favorable comment from the forces that support the Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, last November; and no doubt the lack of organized religious opposition to our legislative program this year was due, in large part, to the favorable impressions religionists gained through reading Monitor editorials. For example, an important ministerial alliance that had opposed us in former years, discussed several editorials from the Monitor at their formal meetings last fall.

A minister in a prominent church in one of our larger cities stated to his congregation that he had gleaned certain of the facts presented from The Christian Science Monitor, which he considered the best newspaper in the world." Lack of space forbids narrating more than a fraction of such interesting and helpful incidents which came to the attention of your committee this past year.

Under the plan proposed by The Christian Science Publishing Society through Committees on Publication, of offering subscriptions to the Monitor to newspapers in localities where there are no branches of The Mother Church, in exchange for an equivalent in advertising space, twenty-seven editors renewed their subscriptions, and eleven accepted their first subscriptions.

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