Items of Interest April 20, 1935 Issue

Items of Interest

On April 7, and on the first Sunday of the month for five succeeding months, the morning services of The Mother Church in Boston will go out by radio over short-wave station W1XAL, simultaneously with the long-wave station WNAC, from 10.45 a.m. to 12 m., Eastern Standard Time.

It is to be recalled, as was stated in the Christian Science Sentinel of February 16, 1935, that from this station, which has a frequency of 6040 kilocycles, The Mother Church sends out regularly on Sunday evenings from 5.15 to 5.30, Eastern Standard Time, a short program on Christian Science. After May 1, the station will have a frequency of 111790 kilocycles.

It is gratifying to learn of the reception of the shortwave program in distant lands. Here is an excerpt from a letter dated in England: "Last night while listening on the 49-metre broadcast band, I came across your transmission from W1XAL, which was coming in at about R7 on my allwave four-valve set, with very little, and rapid fading, but intelligibility full one hundred per cent. It was, however, the programme which attracted my attention. ... You have no idea how much this broadcast meant to me. I am the only Christian Scientist at this school of three hundred-odd boys, so I cannot go to any Christian Science services or meetings, but do all my reading, etc., on my own, whilst being rather laughed at by other boys. So you will realize that such broadcasts, about which I knew nothing until hearing this one, are a very great help to me, as they must be to anyone else who hears them."

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