Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

Oregon.

Sixty Oregon newspapers opened their columns to two hundred and sixty-nine reprints from The Christian Science Monitor. A high school paper reported that "a copy is donated to the [school] library, of The Christian Science Monitor, which was recently voted the best edited paper in the United States." A letter of appreciation received from the commanding officer of a CCC Camp for copies of the Monitor reads as follows: "They are greatly appreciated and both the Educational Advisor and myself sincerely appreciate the opportunity to have them in the reading room of this camp, as the unbiased views of the editors and the excellent treatment of national and international news are very enlightening."

Several healings were reported from listening to our radio programs, among them one of a badly sprained ankle. Another was of a young man who was being forced into unemployment on account of heart and lung trouble. His interest in Christian Science was aroused by one of our radio programs, and his hope renewed. He was given a Bible and purchased a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and a Christian Science Quarterly. Through earnest study his strength returned, his healing followed, and employment was promised.

An interesting meeting was held last winter with an out-of-town Methodist Guild group, at which a half-hour address approved by The Christian Science Board of Directors was delivered.

Connecticut.

The press of the state has again extended more space than in other years for the reporting of lectures. More daily papers are quoting from The Christian Science Monitor, with proper credit. One large daily within recent weeks reproduced two complete articles.

Our devotional programs over stations WNBC (1380 kc.) and WELI (900 kc.) are leavening thought, and carrying healing to the receptive thought. One listener wrote: "I am grateful for a healing a few weeks ago while listening to a radio program. I had had a fall; was healed of that but still had a stiff knee. Following the broadcast I could walk normally again, and the healing is permanent."

We in Connecticut have contributed at various times to the general relief fund of The Mother Church. In the fall of 1938 and early winter of 1939 we had an intimate experience with the effective operation of this fund. So great was the damage done by the hurricane to church edifices of other denominations, both in number and amount of damage, that The Christian Science Board of Directors approved the use of the surplus funds up to two hundred dollars to any one church. Among many expressions of appreciation and gratitude was an editorial in the Deep River Era as follows:

"The need of the Christian Science churches was very quickly met and a substantial sum was left over. Instead of diverting this money into their own treasury, the Storm Relief Board divided the money into various amounts and gave it to churches everywhere in the storm area, depending upon the extent to which their buildings were damaged.

"Their generosity has increased the spirit of brotherhood among professing Christians all through New England. What is more significant is that they gave of their substance—they gave money and not just the expression of pious words."

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