Christian Science Committee on Publication for North Island, New Zealand, Reports

The issuing of our annual report this year gives opportunity to express profound gratitude to God for preserving this country through an especially trying period during which the threat of invasion and other dangers hung over us. Christian Scientists will also feel the call for fervent consecration in our great mission of destroying the belief in evil by proving the allness and omnipotence of God, good.

During the year under review this Committee has had the privilege of addressing several branches of The Mother Church on the objects and work of his office.

The relationship between this office and the press continues to be very good, and the only item calling for correction or comment was a criticism of the Wanganui Chronicle's short report of a Christian Science lecture in that city. This Committee's letter of correction was immediately published.

A local denominational paper contained in two numbers four pages of violent attack upon Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science. Notwithstanding that the allegations raised have been answered many times before, this Committee sent a corrective letter, which was printed in a following issue.

It is still very difficult to obtain space in the daily papers, owing to the paper restrictions, but editors have been very generous to us—according to their ideas of the news value of our various announcements. Thirteen papers carried a condensed report of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church.

Subscriptions in exchange for advertising have all been renewed, and several editors have expressed admiration for and appreciation of The Christian Science Monitor, from which they quoted freely.

The following quotations from Mrs. Eddy's works seem to be in accord with the hour: "The star of Bethlehem is the star of Boston, high in the zenith of Truth's domain, that looketh down on the long night of human beliefs, to pierce the darkness and melt into dawn" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 320); "At the present time this Bethlehem star looks down upon the long night of materialism,— material religion, material medicine, a material world; and it shines as of yore, though it 'shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. But the day will dawn and the daystar will appear, lighting the gloom, guiding the steps of progress from molecule and mortals outward and upward in the scale of being" (The First Church of Christ. Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 110).

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