Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

Illinois.

A small group of adults attending the summer session of a school for the blind listened regularly to the Christian Science program received by them at six-thirty every weekday morning, and one of the group wrote to express gratitude and to request the citations used in connection with an article on the subject of sight.

One man who had expressed great opposition to the broadcasting of radio programs continued to object to them until one morning his daughter was healed while listening to a Christian Science program. He is now an earnest supporter of the radio programs.

With the consent of The Christian Science Board of Directors in Boston, three addresses were given to groups of non-Scientists in Illinois during the past year. The Committee addressed a group of college students in the First Presbyterian Church of Normal, Illinois, and a Sunday school class of high school and college pupils in the Temple Sholom in Chicago.

The Committee on Publication for Illinois was called upon to engage in flood relief activities in this state on behalf of The Mother Church. Rehabilitation activities carried on after the immediate needs for cash and clothing had been met, included the supplying of funds in amounts of from fifty dollars to several hundred dollars to individual families for the restoration of their homes and furnishings. Among non-Scientists who gave donations were a Chinese laundryman, who gave unclaimed shirts, beautifully laundered; a florist, who gave money; several cleaners, who offered unclaimed clothing; owners of two dress shops, who gave new clothing; a merchant, who gave shoes, coats, and underwear. In one Protestant church in southern Illinois, from which clothing was being distributed, a minister gave out about one hundred copies of the Christian Science Sentinel, saying that he knew they would help to lift the spirit and improve the morale of the recipients.

Connecticut.

A pastor of a large Congregational church delivered a sermon on the subject "Creative Religion." His discussion was an appeal to live our lives as Christians so as to create the right impression on our fellow men. Among several illustrations, he told of meeting, while on a vacation during the previous summer, a man and his family who were living their Christianity. On becoming well acquainted with the man, he learned that he was a Christian Scientist, and a First Reader in a branch church.

An outstanding result of our radio program is one related to an attendant of a Reading Room. A man came in on a Friday noon asking for the book he had heard about over the radio. While driving from a near-by city, very much discouraged because of poor business, he turned on his car radio. An arresting sentence from Science and Health aroused him. He was inspired to renewed effort, came to the Reading Room, and borrowed the textbook. A week or so later, he returned with the textbook and told of improved business, and a renewal of cordial relations with his employer, with whom he had been at breaking point for some time. But best of all, he told of his wife's reading Science and Health, and on the following Sunday attending church, and placing their two children in the Sunday school. Previous to that the wife had not been out of her home for a long time because of foot trouble of a serious nature.

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