Publishing Church

In making a few ideas go far, no modern religionist has ever rivaled Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, shrewd founder of Christian Science. She repeatedly worried her remarkable work, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, revising it indefatigably, issuing one edition after another. Each edition differed enough from the last so that no Christian Scientist could afford to be without it. Last week when 6,000 of Mrs. Eddy's followers gathered in Boston for Mother Church's annual one-day meeting, Science & Health was clearly still the fastest-moving item on the publishing church's list of 246 books. Its latest forms are a $2 Sunday School Edition for young people, a Cleartype edition "as a contribution to the comfort of many." Also new on the list, which showed a 30% sales gain last year and was last week reported holding steady, are Christian Healing in Moon type, the Church Manual in Braille, eight new solo settings of Mrs. Eddy's hymns.

No sour hint marred any of the reports delivered to the Mother Church meeting. According to these, some 150,000 "friendly and constructive" news items relating to Christian Science were published during the past year. Some 3,000,000 people all over the world heard 3,111 Christian Science lectures. Twenty-two new "societies" were founded, one of them by natives in remote mountains of the Philippine Islands. Circulation of the famed Christian Science Monitor (daily) advanced from 129,000 to 146,000, a new high. Indebtedness for remodeling the old Christian Science Publishing House as an administration building was paid off. Debt-free remained the new, massy $4,500,000 Publishing House, to which journeyed 120,000 visitors to behold its Mapparium containing the world's largest globe (TIME, June 17, 1935). Finally, the meeting learned that "the developments of this hour in world history are not disheartening to the thinker in Christian Science. These developments corroborate and fulfill our Leader's prophecy (Miscellany 281:28): 'War will end when nations are ripe for progress.'"

That statement was voiced by the Mother Church's incoming president, Mrs. Elizabeth Cadwell Tomlinson. Daughter of Americus Vespucius Tilton Cadwell, she was born in Wisconsin some 60 years ago, went to Boston where she met and married a Christian Science Church trustee. Rev. Irving Clinton Tomlinson, now 76. Grey and radiant, Mrs. Tomlinson has performed many a "remarkable healing," still maintains a Christian Science practitioner's office in Boston's Back Bay.

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