The Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society reported to the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church in June that The Christian Science Monitor is seriously in the red. The urgent support of our entire Field is requested in helping us carry out our plan to correct this situation.
One of the first steps in this plan is to raise the Monitor's subscription price to $30.00 annually in the United States and Canada and to $28.00 annually for the London edition. Single copies will be 15 cents. This move is totally consistent with the current price trends on other leading newspapers. Effective date is October 1, 1970. We are confident the Field will support this increase.
But this is only a short-term measure. The Monitor's real need is for a broader continuing circulation base. If every member of The Mother Church were to avail himself of the opportunity provided in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy to subscribe for our paper (see Art. VIII, Sect. 14), the Monitor would move a long way toward the solution of its economic challenge.
