Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1927

Kansas.

On September 30, the Galena Times said: "One of the things for which anyone with good common sense must admire the Christian Scientists is that they ... refuse to make of ... [sickness] a subject of social conversation or even to discuss ailments at all." The Wichita Beacon has published full-text lectures on Christian Science, also an article about relief work in the flooded district in eastern Kansas, stating that The Christian Science Board of Directors had contributed from the Relief Fund of The Mother Church twenty-five hundred dollars to the flood sufferers. Your Committee on Publication spent one day with the relief committee from Kansas City, Missouri, driving through the flooded district, covering a distance of seventy-five miles, and giving necessary assistance to the unfortunate.

Michigan.

This Committee records with gratitude that in the past year only one or two unkind references to our beloved Leader appeared in the Michigan press. One such reference was published in a syndicated daily column then appearing in the Detroit Daily News, a newspaper having the largest circulation in this state. A protest to the editor was promptly followed by the discontinuance of this syndicated feature, in keeping with the newspaper's admirable policy of not permitting anything in its columns criticizing any religious belief.

In August a press dispatch which quoted certain misstatements of Mrs. Eddy's teachings was printed in only one newspaper in this state, while fourteen newspapers printed a subsequent dispatch which quoted the Committee on Publication for New York in reply to the earlier statement.

Pulpit attacks on Christian Science have not been numerous this year. Only two references to such criticisms appeared in the newspapers. An interesting sidelight on this improving state of affairs is seen in the following quotation from an editorial in the Michigan Christian Advocate, a denominational organ: "Christian Science has always thrived on frontal attacks.... The moral of the whole matter is this, that unless we can see in our own churches miracles of grace that excel these miracles of the skin and bones, we have small right to criticize." The Grand Rapids Herald reported an appreciative address on Christian Science by a Congregational minister, and quoted him as saying in part: "We love the Christian Scientists for their insistence on demonstration.... The Christian Scientists I have known well have shown remarkable eagerness to prove the truth of their faith by its effect upon their lives.... 'Demonstrate, demonstrate,' they say to one another. And we may well take the word to our hearts." There is much for Christian Scientists to rejoice over in these signs of neighborliness.

A number of editors at points where there is no branch church or society availed themselves of a recent offer by our Publishing Society to exchange a subscription to The Christian Science Monitor in return for advertising in newspapers at such places. One result, immediately noticed, is the frequency with which reprints from our daily newspaper have since appeared in these papers. From observation of newspapers in this state, the Committee believes that no other paper is so often quoted in the press as the Monitor. The beneficent influence of our newspaper is widespread, and by actively supporting it Christian Scientists are lending substantial aid to the work of the Committee on Publication.

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