Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

Wisconsin.

During the past year thirty-eight newspapers have published excerpts of our Lesson-Sermons weekly with reasonable regularity. This represents an increase of six papers over last year. Forty-nine papers published excerpts of the Thanksgiving Day Lesson-Sermon, including a brief account of the occasion. Twenty-four papers published an editorial from the Monitor, entitled "The Healing Art Progresses," sent out by this office. Five hundred and eighteen reprints from The Christian Science Monitor were published voluntarily in the papers in the state, an increase of one hundred and seventy-five over last year. The Christian Science Monitor has made friends for Christian Science of many editors in the state, and has thus been a very important factor in the progress which has been made in disseminating Christian Science through the press.

There were some misrepresentations of and injustices to our Leader in sermons, which were not published in the press. It is encouraging to state in this connection that an Episcopal minister, at the close of his sermon on Good Friday, is reported to have said, "We owe much thanks to Mary Baker Eddy for giving us the wonderful definition of atonement."

Hankow and Shanghai, China.

The attitude of the local press continues to be satisfactory with respect to Christian Science. The local papers have published letters from this Committee to their editors as corrections of misstatements concerning Christian Science appearing in their columns.

One paper published an account of Mrs. Eddy's having received the largest number of votes among the twelve American women selected as having rendered outstanding service to humanity as great leaders during the last hundred years. Excerpts from the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly are published each Saturday in the North-China Daily News, and the Shanghai Times; and are published in the Hankow Herald and the Central China Post with considerable regularity. Frequent reprints from the Monitor appear in the daily press, giving the Monitor due credit.

A newspaper announcement appeared stating that a local clergyman would deliver a series of addresses under the general subject of "Some Modern Substitutes for the Christian Church," and that one of the addresses would be on Christian Science. A letter was sent to the clergyman extending an invitation to him to avail himself of the facilities of our Reading Room Lending Library and mentioning some of the books available, also stating that it was our desire that statements concerning Christian Science should be free from inaccuracies. As a result, he came to the Reading Room and borrowed Science and Health and its Concordance. His attention was called to the erroneous title of the series of addresses which classed Christian Science as a "substitute" for, instead of a denomination of, the "Christian Church," as did Mrs. Eddy. This correction was offered in a letter from this Committee to the editor of the North-China Daily News and was published. The clergyman volunteered to make the above-mentioned correction in his address, and did so. His address on Christian Science was friendly in tone, although it exhibited misunderstanding of his subject.

Two lectures were given during the year, and were well attended.

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