Article October 20, 1898 Issue

SCIENTISTS AND NEWSPAPERS

BY HERBERT S. FULLER.

I have heard many Scientists, and some whose life and work I have an admiration for, say in a tone that expressed more perhaps than was intended, that they never read the newspapers. I have felt at times that perhaps there was something wrong about it.

I can imagine that a Scientist whose entire time is given up to the demonstration of the great truths of Christian Science, might not get time to read the newspapers to any extent, and that there are such I do not doubt, but most of us find time to do many things that seem to me far more reprehensible than the reading of the daily or weekly newspaper.

The writings of the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy from time to time indicate plainly that she keeps pace with the great events of the day in the outside world, and evinces, often, a lively interest in them, as witness the grand words in the closing paragraphs of her message to our Mother Church last Communion Sunday. The information she possesses upon such topics must have been gained from reading the newspapers.

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