Article February 24, 1934 Issue

Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

Illinois.

It is pleasing to announce that during the period covered by this report our first duty, that of correcting impositions and injustices in the printed page, has considerably lessened. This means a step in progress; and it proves conclusively that Christian Science is becoming better understood and therefore more respectfully weighed by thoughtful readers of the press. Alert editors, discerning this upward trend in news values, are opening their columns to our informative and instructive copy relating to the Christian Science church.

The Belleville Advocate, published in a community where the press has been at times unfriendly to Christian Science, carried an editorial entitled "And all these things," which commented on an announcement made at the Annual Meeting in Boston regarding the attainment of the Christian Science Field in paying for the new Publishing House. The editor's comment was in part as follows: "If you ask the Christian Scientists for an explanation they quite probably will quote the words of Christ Jesus, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you,' and they quite probably will add that they understand 'all these things' to be the material part of existence, from plain bread and butter up to magnificent works of architecture. Regardless of whether one agrees with the Tenets of the Christian Science faith, one must concede that, in achieving what has been achieved at Boston during a period of intense world depression, something highly inspiring has been done. The success of the great project at a time like this justifies one in asking if, indeed, the cause has not been spiritual, rather than material."

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