Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication

South Dakota.

In reviewing the work of the year, your Committee finds it gratifying to report that the attitude of the press has been increasingly courteous and friendly to our Cause. Statements from the press, from the pulpits, and over the air were watched. No corrections, newspaper or radio, were necessary.

Twenty-nine daily and weekly newspapers are now regularly publishing in full the Lesson-Sermon excerpts from the Christian Science Quarterly, with two or three exceptions, where only the subject and Golden Text are published. These excerpts are bearing fruit, as is evidenced by many reports of inquiries regarding Christian Science.

Through arrangements made by The Christian Science Publishing Society, The Christian Science Monitor is available to editors of newspapers on the exchange-for-advertising basis. Seventy-two newspapers have taken advantage of this plan, an increase of eight new subscriptions over last year. Two hundred and seventy-four reprints from the Monitor, giving due credit, appeared in newspapers throughout the state.

One clipping that reached this Committee states: "The Christian Science church has subscribed to The Christian Science Monitor for the school library. This newspaper is published in Boston and is recognized as one of the outstanding daily papers of the entire country. The school is grateful for this gift, because it makes good reading material for pupils and teachers."

With growing interest we note the high esteem in which the Monitor is held by the leading newspapers of our state, as shown by their enthusiastic comments when approached for renewals of the exchange-for-advertising subscriptions.

The Monitor is being used in a number of public schools and high schools throughout the state, as well as at Augustana College of this city, where it is greatly appreciated.

Eleven lectures on Christian Science were given in South Dakota by members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship. Of this number three were printed in full, and sixteen papers carried partial reports. These lectures were well advertised in the press and over the radio stations. About nine hundred copies of the lectures were sold. The lecture given at Rapid City was broadcast over their station, KOBH.

Barbados, British West Indies.

The number of insertions, in local papers of passages from the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly has been maintained through the year. Three out of a total of four newspapers carry these weekly selections.

The press has been wholly friendly during the year, and no criticisms of the teachings of Christian Science have been published. There have been many reprints from The Christian Science Monitor published in our newspapers, giving credit to the Monitor as their source.

An account of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church in Boston was published in two papers, with an accompanying print of The Mother Church edifice.

A report of our lecture was reprinted in three of our newspapers.

A commemoration service was held at Codrington College, which is our local theological college. In his speech before a large gathering the principal quoted from a copy of The Christian Science Monitor which had been sent him by the distribution committee of our church.

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