Article May 1, 1943 Issue

Christian Science Committee on Publication for New York Reports

This past year there were brought to my attention sixteen derogatory statements in the press. Answers were submitted to all of them, and about fifty per cent of the answers were published.

Corrections of impositions and injustices are not limited to newspapers or periodicals, but extend to "circulated literature of any sort" (Manual, Art. XXXIII, Sect. 2). Along the latter line, there have been twenty–five new books wherein were either critical statements regarding Christian Science and its Discoverer and Founder, or statements that showed primarily a lack of correct knowledge of Christian Science. (This is a marked improvement over last year, when there were forty–two books which needed correction.) In some of the publications it was considered unnecessary to make any corrections: in some cases the book was of such a nature that a second printing would be out of the question, and in other instances the reference was very inconsequential. However, when a deliberate misstatement was made, or a disparaging remark or malicious attack was evident, a letter was promptly sent to the publishers, and in some cases to the author direct.

Correct material was supplied to an encyclopedia, a new English–Spanish and Spanish–English dictionary, also to a Year Book and the 1943 edition of the World Almanac.

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