Article April 22, 1911 Issue

"THAT PUBLISHETH PEACE."

CHARLES A. BLAKE.

Many and varied ways in which to serve the Christian Science cause through the medium of the Monitor constantly present themselves to those who are ready to grasp every opportunity for advancing this great truth which has done so much for us and which is reforming and regenerating the whole human family through the teaching and example of our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and through the demonstration of her faithful followers. Not long ago, the writer, being in need of some articles of "gentlemen's furnishings," consulted the haberdashers' advertisements which appeared in the "Guide to Shops of Quality" column of that day's issue. On entering the store selected, he told the salesman who served him that it was through the Monitor advertisement that he had been led to visit the store. He was surprised and pleased by the courtesy and tact with which he was served, for while the salesman seemed to be solicitous that every need should be supplied, there was no attempt to substitute or to urge upon him goods that he did not want.

After the purchase had been made, the salesman spoke in glowing terms of the work the Monitor was doing, and while admitting that at first he had been skeptical as to the advisability of advertising in it, as not being a believer in Christian Science he had been opposed to the paper on account of the name, he yet told the writer that the character of the Monitor had won his confidence, and results had proved that the advertisement placed in it had brought the best returns of any; in fact, he now considered that every dollar put into the Monitor's advertising columns was a sound investment.

Another incident in the writer's experience will show the great privilege which is ours in sending forth this beautiful messenger of help and peace. He had arranged to meet a friend at a certain place near the Boston Common, and having an hour to wait he sat down on a vacant bench on the Common and proceeded to read the Monitor. So engrossed in the paper did he become that he suddenly found he must hasten in order to meet the appointment. He noticed, however, that a man who had taken the seat beside him was eagerly reading the paper over his shoulder, and though without a moment to spare for conversation, he saw at a glance that the man was probably out of work, as indicated by the lines of care in his face and the shabby clothing which nevertheless bore evidences of an attempt at an orderly and respectable appearance. Offering the paper to the man, and telling him to look on the pages devoted to the "free want advertisements," the writer left him, feeling secure in the knowledge that the seed had been sown and God would give the increase.

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