Article January 15, 1910 Issue

OUR NEWSPAPER

IDA G. STEWART.

All fair-minded people who are alert to the needs of the human family, as well as to means for its betterment, should be interested in the success of The Christian Science Monitor. For twenty-five years our Leader has patiently nursed the hope that such a newspaper as the Monitor might come into the arena of the Christian Science movement. Time has brought certain changes in human thought, and the Monitor has come as the natural result of mental preparation and unfoldment. While it is not a religious organ, in the sense in which that term is commonly used, it stands for right-mindedness, purity of thought, and a broad grasp upon daily happenings at home and abroad, which make for righteousness.

It requires no labored analysis to convince the thoughtful that the daily perusal of a newspaper which refuses to cater to the sensational, criminal, and sickly tendencies in human thought, will in time cultivate a desire for that which is clean and true, and a corresponding aversion for the sensational or merely emotional. Such a current of clean thought impulse is needed, and the Monitor is an avenue through which this regenerating and transforming thought will be transmitted.

Graphic accounts of crime, calamity, or accident do not constitute news. That which tends to excite fear, curiosity, and a morbid desire for the perusal and contemplation of evil cannot be legitimately classed as news. Recital of fact is news, and, in that facts are forever new, interesting, and instructive, the Monitor, with its well-freighted columns of real news, is never in danger of becoming stale reading, even if it should reach its destination several days after the date of issue.

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