Article April 13, 1912 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS AND THE MONITOR

DAISY CYNTHIA WOOD.

Mrs. Eddy says: "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more" (Science and Health, p. 3). This may be applied to our attitude as Christian Scientists toward our daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. As an impersonal missionary, the Monitor is silently proclaiming the gospel of Truth. It is reaching out to all nations and peoples, uniting them through mutual interests in the bonds of universal brotherhood.

If we are really grateful for the good we have received, we shall cease to speculate upon what to our sense might seem improved conditions, which may not yet have become practicable. We shall cease to admit the thoughtless argument of stale news by knowing that news which has for its foundation the statement of truth is constructive, redemptive, and that such news is constantly increasing in value. It can, therefore, never become stale. Is not the realization of this fact a fitting preparation that we may receive more? Let us rejoice, then, in the present attainment of the Monitor, in the good already accomplished. Then, through the spiritual unfoldment which results from gratitude and from availing ourselves of present blessings, we shall find new avenues opening before us. Haste to absorb sensational so-called "news" the minute it is off the press, regardless of its truthfulness, is far from being a normal view-point. The Monitor maintains a dignified standard as a universal compendium of clean information, of educational facts, and these do not change from hour to hour with every "extra" edition.

Surely the duty of financially supporting this splendid exponent of better things for all, cannot be lightly regarded, when we realize that by so doing we are becoming shareholders in the greatest reform movement the world has ever known. Our investment brings returns, not yearly or monthly but continually. These dividends are spiritualized thoughts manifested in health, happiness, and harmony. Only ignorance of the blessings to be received, or the argument, entertained, of self-justification, claiming, "I have done all I can," could prevent us from becoming true supporters of the Monitor—a great factor in the world today for establishing the brotherhood of man.

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