Article August 13, 1910 Issue

THE DEMONSTRATION OF FRIENDLINESS BY MEANS OF THE MONITOR

REV. WM. P. MC KENZIE.

The Christian Science Monitor

When the newsboys in Boston began to call the Monitor on the corners and in the cars, there were a great many people who took a new interest in these enterprising young merchants of the street. Ladies unaccustomed to buying newspapers on the street-cars, became customers, and had friendly words of encouragement to give along with the coins that paid for the paper. Knowing the mission of the new paper, they had a sense of good will to those who supplied the public with it, and of kind congratulation for those who were seen to purchase and peruse it. Considering the general interest and welcome among the Christian Scientists of the world, it might be said that the appearing of the Monitor marked the beginning of an era of good will.

It may be worth while to refer to some of the ways in which this good will to men has already found expression. By means of the Monitor our people have been able to express appreciation of the work of those public servants in cities, police officers and firemen for example, who are caring for the public safety through the night as well as by day. At their various stations they often have to spend waiting hours, and with the consent of the proper authorities arrangements have been made to supply many fire halls and police stations regularly with the Monitor. Where this has been done it is usual for the men to express themselves gratefully to the friends who provide the paper as a token of personal interest in those who are doing service for the welfare of the community.

There are other public servants whose work is often unregarded, such as lighthouse keepers and coast-guardsmen, whose faithful watch is often kept in storm and darkness and in loneliness. To these men the good will of those who value their devotion has found expression through the Monitor, and the traveler by sea who watches the gleaming and the blinking of the coastwise lights, or enters his desired haven through their guidance, and thinks of the yearlong nightly service that goes on without failure, cannot but feel glad to know that many of these public servants receive the Monitor's daily message of good will. It goes also to many of the stations from which the coast-guards start out on their patrol, and it encourages men at life-saving stations; thus becoming a means whereby the gratitude of unknown friends may reach those whose work for the general welfare has peculiar difficulties and trials.

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