Article December 2, 1944 Issue

Christian Science Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England, Reports

Mrs. Eddy gives a word of encouragement to those looking away from the chaos of today to the harmony of tomorrow, for which we are all working, when she says in "Pulpit and Press," page 10: "Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard on the rock of Christ, the true, the spiritual idea,—the chief corner-stone in the house of our God. And our Master said: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.' If you are less appreciated to-day than your forefathers, wait—for if you are as devout as they, and more scientific, as progress certainly demands, your plant is immortal."

The work in connection with the press has continued steadily. During the past year several additional papers have been discontinued, owing to the further restriction of newsprint, and others have stopped or reduced the space they have previously given to us. Our friendly relations with them continue unabated, however. One of the most important of our activities, the excerpts from the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, is gradually giving the press and the public a more correct sense of Christian Science. Of the excerpts, 978 have been published during the year. The Gems of Thought items have been published 366 times.

Reports of lectures on Christian Science have been published forty-six times, and an account of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church thirty-four times, the highest figure for both these items yet printed in any year. Thirty-five reports of Thanksgiving Day services is also as high as it has ever been in any year. These items are encouraging for the future, when conditions become more normal again.

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