Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

Sweden.

During the official year the Swedish press on the whole has shown an extremely friendly attitude towards our Cause. In the Inquiry column of a widely circulated weekly, Christian Science was mentioned, with the result that several correct and appreciative statements appeared in a later issue. This occasion also gave the Committee an opportunity of furnishing an explanatory comment with regard to a few points which were not clear.

The great value to our Cause of our international daily newspaper is well known. It has contributed greatly to making our movement respected. During the year, a Swedish professor, in an article which was published in not less than twenty-eight Swedish newspapers, placed The Christian Science Monitor among the three foremost papers in the United States.

A great number of Swedish newspapers have availed themselves of the privilege of subscribing to the Monitor in exchange for advertising. In these newspapers quotations have often been made from the Monitor, always with due credit given.

During the official year three Christian Science lectures were given in this field, two in Stockholm and one in Gothenburg. These lectures, rendered in Swedish, were read from the platform immediately before or after the original delivery in English.

Reports of Christian Science lectures were published in fifteen daily papers all over Sweden, in connection with advertisements regarding authorized Christian Science literature, and the Reading Rooms where it is to be obtained. In several cases the editors have expressed their pleasure in opening their columns to such a report.

Washington.

Editors of daily and weekly newspapers published in this state are friendly toward our religion. During the year covered by this report no statements in regard to Mrs. Eddy or to Christian Science which needed correction were published. On the contrary, more space than ever before has been cheerfully granted for excerpts from our Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, reports of Christian Science lectures, condensed accounts of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, reprints from The Christian Science Monitor, and various news items.

During the period covered by this report, fifty-three newspapers in the state published excerpts from the weekly Lesson-Sermons. A man and his wife living in a town where there is no branch of The Mother Church, would have nothing to do with Christian Science because they had heard that Christian Scientists do not read the Bible. After reading the first Lesson-Sermon excerpt published in their local paper they were both healed of their prejudice, and now attend services regularly in a near-by city.

Of the seventy-four lectures delivered during the year covered by this report, fifty-two were published in full, an increase of nearly one third over the previous year. From reports that have come in, lecture publicity has borne much good fruit.

The wife of one editor, after reading an instance of healing referred to in an address in the Annual Meeting report, turned to a Christian Science practitioner for help for their little daughter. The child was beautifully and quickly healed.

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