Article November 3, 1951 Issue

Achieving Their Object

[Note: Extracts from librarians' reports to the Reading Room Division. Reports of similar progress are always welcome.]

Interest in our new ground-floor Reading Room has been steadily increasing since its opening in July. Its location has been called the heart of this community of approximately eleven thousand population. It is on one of the busiest streets in the business district. Children as well as adults stop to read everything displayed in the large, well-appointed show window. Sales continue to result from window displays, as do inquiries about Christian Science.

One who knew nothing about Christian Science attended the Reading Room opening and after looking around with interest inquired of an attendant how to study the Bible Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly. Later she returned to purchase a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. More recently we learned that she had asked for help in Christian Science when a member of her family was ill.

A window reader came in one day to see if we carried for sale the Readers' Bibles with especially legible type, such as we use in the display of the Lesson-Sermons. The Hymnal, opened to an appropriate hymn, is displayed with the Bible, Science and Health, and Quarterly, and on several occasions young people have been seen and heard singing the selected hymns.

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FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
November 3, 1951
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