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The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church is in favor of eliminating unnecessary repetition from announcements of Christian Science lectures. In a branch church one sometimes hears notices of several lectures to be given in the vicinity, and a conscientious Reader in reading them may follow for each one exactly the wording in the Board of Lectureship's recommendations sent out annually. However, no objection is made when these notices are grouped and the repetition of such words as "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts" is eliminated.

Readers may well remember that when the phrase "The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts," has been used once, it is scarcely necessary to give the full title the second time. Then the Church can be referred to as "The Mother Church in Boston" or simply "The Mother Church," and the listener will understand the reference.

Necessarily the notices displayed on banners in streets, on placards in streetcars, or on the motion picture screens, must be shortened. The most essential information to be given is the fact that a lecture on Christian Science is to be delivered; next, when and where; then that it is free to all; next, who sponsors it and who delivers it, and that the lecturer is a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church; and lastly, that the public is cordially invited to attend.

After you have read your copies of The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, and other publications, what shall be done with them? The Literature Distribution Committees of branch churches generally are glad to receive these periodicals if they are in good condition and are sufficiently recent; the more recent, the better. From time to time the local Distribution Committee of The Mother Church is granted an announcement at the Wednesday evening meetings of The Mother Church, which reads:

The Literature Distribution Committee of The Mother Church is greatly in need of noncurrent literature, especially copies of the Journal, Sentinel, and Heralds. The Committee can use periodicals that are not more than six months old, and The Christian Science Monitor when it is not more than one month old. Co-operation in turning in your used literature will enable the Committee to supply requests for literature in the local district of The Mother Church and to assist branch churches and societies in their distribution activities. The literature may be left at Room 9, 222 Massachusetts Avenue, or at Window F of the coat room on Wednesdays or Sundays.

Older issues are occasionally useful; and sometimes those too old to distribute in the regular ways have reached an individual with a receptive thought and at a time of special need. This may occur on ships going on long voyages, where the literature is passed from hand to hand. But those subscribers who keep their literature in prompt circulation through the Distribution Committees, or otherwise, will quite evidently quicken and even increase its usefulness.

Mrs. Eddy began distributing Christian Science literature when there was any to distribute, and never ceased to do so; and she encouraged others to do likewise.

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