Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

Albama.

A number of newspapers are reprinting, almost daily, items and editorials from The Christian Science Monitor. Letters of appreciation are frequently received from editors. The following are characteristic expressions from their letters: "I am glad to enclose renewal order for the Monitor. I value it highly and find it extremely useful and informative." "I am happy to exchange advertising for my beloved Christian Science Monitor. Not only our office enjoys the Monitor but I give it away often. I save copies for a country woman, who carries it in her car to read; clerks in stores and people needing spiritual food are types who receive a copy of the Monitor from this office. So hurry the cut to me, for I want your paper." "We will be glad indeed to secure a renewal of the contract and receive the Monitor another year. Truthfully, it is my favorite newspaper and reading matter, and almost every issue of my paper carries editorials from the Monitor, with proper credits. Also we use all the religious articles from the Monitor sent us by the Committee on Publication." "I believe we would be a far better country if such a newspaper and such reading matter went into all our homes."

One Assistant, who is active in looking after our Christian Science books and literature in a government hospital for World War veterans, writes as follows: "It is interesting to note that the doctors here approve of the patients' reading Christian Science literature. Many of the men have actually been encouraged to read Science and Health by some of the doctors in charge, and they have acknowledged the good effect our literature has on these patients. One was healed of blindness through having our textbook read to him."

Georgia.

Between eighty and ninety editors continue to subscribe to the Monitor on our exchange-for-advertising plan.

An editor wrote: "We are very anxious that The Christian Science Monitor continue to come to the Advance. Its articles on international affairs . . . make it a valuable asset in a newspaper office. We reproduce clippings, and will be glad to carry advertisement in payment for the annual subscription."

The editor of one of the Americus papers wrote: "The Monitor is the most prized publication coming to my desk. . . . The Monitor gives me more accurate information, background, and unbiased opinion than any or all other publications. Please accept this word of personal appreciation."

After the tornado in Albany, The Christian Science Board of Directors sent your Committee a sum of money from The Mother Church Relief Fund, to be used for relief work in that stricken area. Your Committee, in company with the Assistant, called on the ministers of all denominations, to ascertain if we could be of help to any of their parishioners who had sustained loss in the tornado.

As the Jewish synagogue was almost completely demolished, our largest single contribution was made to the Jewish people to aid in repairing it, and a beautiful letter of appreciation was received from the rabbi. A number of the religious bodies of Albany, including the Christian Science Society, offered their church buildings to the Jewish congregation as a place of worship until such time as they could use their own. These offers were graciously accepted, and the congregation worshiped in the edifice of the Christian Science Society during the month of June.

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