Article February 7, 1953 Issue

Our Reading Rooms

Inviting Window Displays [Extracts from two reports prepared by those responsible for the window displays in downtown Reading Rooms]

The relocation of this Reading Room to its present ground-floor quarters was in furtherance of the purpose of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, to bring the healing message of Christian Science to the attention of as many as possible, and in this, the window display performs an important function. It frequently provides the stranger with his first introduction to Christian Science.

On many occasions the librarians have seen passers-by stop before the window, attracted by the words "Christian Science," then stay to examine the display before them. Some of these cease to be mere passers-by, for they come in to make inquiries. Others may be seen to stop a sufficient number of times to be recognized before entering the Reading Room, in some instances becoming, first, daily readers at the window. There are others who are seen at the window but once and those whose pauses are infrequent; yet whatever the window reader takes away with him can only leaven his thinking.

Our window display is built around the current Bible Lesson contained in the Christian Science Quarterly, the cross and crown emblem (the registered trademark of the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, which is always on display), and The Christian Science Monitor. Appropriate references from the Lesson-Sermon are marked in the Bible, the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and the Quarterly. These are changed each weekday. Two different pages of the latest edition of the Monitor are always on display. From time to time most of the literature sold in the Reading Room is displayed. Translations, in particular, arouse much interest and of course serve to indicate the world-wide scope of the Christian Science movement.

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