Article December 27, 1941 Issue

Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

Three items which required correction appeared in the press during the year. Of the three letters sent to the respective editors, part of one was printed in a note by the writer of the item referred to; one was acknowledged privately by the writer of the article in question; and the third was not acknowledged, but the article which contained a misconception of Christian Science, written by a well-known authoress under a pseudonym, appeared in another paper under her own name but with all reference to Christian Science omitted.

Lesson-Sermon excerpts from the Christian Science Quarterly are sent to the editors of one city daily newspaper and seven weekly newspapers. They are printed regularly in five papers and occasionally in the others. During the year two lectures were printed in full in Lanarkshire papers, and several short synopses and brief forewords also appeared.

The Committee is indebted to the literature distribution committees of the Glasgow churches for their generous cooperation in supplying copies of The Christian Science Monitor to the editors of the Lanarkshire newspapers. Every editor received a copy of the Monitor of May 16, containing "An Editorial Letter to the Readers of the Monitor," in which the policy of the Monitor with regard to the war was clearly stated. Since that issue was sent out, several newspapers have quoted from, or referred to, articles in the Monitor in connection with the war.