Article August 5, 1939 Issue

[Extracts from Annual Report of Christian Science Committee for State Institution and Agencies in New Jersey.]

A women's committee visits each week one of our largest...

A women's committee visits each week one of our largest state hospitals for the insane and is allowed by the authorities to interview and give treatment to any inmates requesting it. In many cases the relatives have asked the committee to give help to inmates. The many copies of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy in the library are in constant use.

The first Christian Science lecture was given in the state reformatory at Rahway in November [1938]. It was attended by several of the officials as well as by about three hundred and sixty inmates. The lecture has resulted in an increased attendance at the services held there each Sunday afternoon, and in a greater respect for Christian Science among the officials.

The authorities in this reformatory, after consideration of all the leading newspapers, recently decided that The Christian Science Monitor was the only daily paper that could be permitted in the library, and have sent in a paid yearly subscription for the Monitor.

Christian Science services are being held in three of our state penal institutions every Sunday afternoon. Many of the men who attend them study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly each week. The demand for the Monitor by the men in these prisons is evidence that they appreciate a clean, well-edited newspaper. All these activities are having a healing, regenerative, and reformative effect on the men. Some of the prison officials have remarked that "few men who have become sincerely interested in Christian Science while in prison ever return for second offenses."

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