Article April 25, 1959 Issue

Of Good Report

Gains in Public Recognition Reported at Committee on Publication Conference

Gathering from all over the world at their 1958 five-day biennial conference in Boston, Christian Science Committees on Publication bore inspiring witness to the gains in public recognition of Christian Science. As they shared with each other the steps by which these substantial gains had been made in their respective areas, the growing respect for Christian Science as an effective healing method was evident, as well as a deepening recognition of its spiritual ministry to a troubled world.

Committees from fifteen nations described how their corrective work in the press, on radio and television, and in talks to non-Science audiences, together with the metaphysical support of Christian Scientists everywhere, is making Christian Science better known and the life and work of Mary Baker Eddy more widely understood. Committees told how this work also buttresses efforts to protect the legal rights of Christian Scientists from the encroachments of the aggressive theory that government should impose a single healing method on everyone. Concrete evidence that Christian Science healing is both safe and effective, as disseminated through the press, radio, and television, is slowly but surely repudiating this theory.

It was pointed out that great love and patience—the touch of the Christ—are essential in dealing with both public officials and critics, that all corrective work must be done in a Christian manner as the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy requires (see Art. XXXIII, Sect. 2). Any act directed against Christian Science arises from some misconception of its teachings, and this misconception needs healing.

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