Article February 20, 1932 Issue

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[Extract from the Annual Report of Joint Harbor Literature Distribution Committee of Los Angeles, at San Pedro, California]

Pleasing it is, when boarding ships, to have the officers advise of their ports of call and indicate that they would be glad to take extra literature to these ports. This has occurred frequently. Officers on oil tankers going to ports of Alaska, Central and South American, and distant points of call elsewhere in the Pacific Ocean, appreciate the Christian Science literature, and are happy to pass it on. This month [October, 1931] the second shipment of literature to South African ports was made. Nearly every island and port of call on the west coast of Central and South American has been supplied with literature through the hearty cooperation of ships' officers.

The captain of a British ship was much interested in the arrival of the literature and said: "The Christian Science Monitor is the best paper published, no exceptions." The second officer on a tanker reported that his reading of the Monitor on ship and then taking the papers to his family had resulted in their subscribing for the Monitor, and his children had become regular attendants in the Christian Science Sunday School.

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