Letters February 16, 2009 Issue

LETTERS

with contributions from RICHARD ELY NEFF, MARY ALLYENE MCKINLEY, CLARE HAM GROSGEBAUER

I have read with deep interest the recent articles covering the centenary of The Christian Science Monitor. The core of Mary Baker Eddy's vision for the Monitor—and hence a glimpse also of its enormous future importance—would seem to lie in her extraordinary statement in Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896: "The spiritual monitor understood is coincidence of the divine with the human, the acme of Christian Science" (p. 100).

All serious students of Christian Science have experienced those precious moments when, as a result of sincere and disinterested prayer, they receive an intuition to do something or say something that they would not otherwise have thought of doing or saying. What is more, such "doing or saying" always causes greater harmony and/or clarity for every individual involved or touched. Such is the "coincidence of the divine with the human." And therein lies the huge potential of the Monitor: To the extent that Monitor writers receive such intuition and guidance, their articles touch and affect thousands—and indirectly perhaps millions—of other individuals.

Thus the climate of human thought is blessed. This is of enormous future importance because of the rising tide of clatter, noise, and dissonance in human thought, enabled and driven by electronic communication. And here again, Mrs. Eddy gives us the insight needed: "In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greaterdevelopment of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one" (Science and Health, pp. 82–83).

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