Article August 5, 1916 Issue

Brotherhood and Our Daily Newspaper

HELEN HOAG ROGERS

A CRITICISM of Christian Scientists, once very common, was after this manner: "They are provincial; they never talk about anything except Christian Science. They do not know and evidently do not care to learn about anything else." At one time this was perhaps not wholly unwarranted regarding many Christian Scientists. If a man suddenly finds that the ground he stands on is like quicksand and may at any moment sink beneath him, he is mightily interested in finding out where and how to find safety. This is what occurs in the consciousness of the young student of Christian Science, especially if he is seeking relief from seemingly hopeless suffering. He finds that none of the various phases of material life and human philosophy will save him in the day of trouble, and he simultaneously makes the all-important discovery that Christian Science, if earnestly studied and practised, will show him where to gain a firm footing and will give him a wonderful sense of security and peace.

Is it strange, then, or altogether blameworthy that the Christian Scientist should feel an all-consuming interest in his religion, which gives him daily proofs that good is becoming an undeniable fixity in his experience? It is indeed necessary that he preserve his desire for God and the keeping of His commandments as the supreme motive power of his life, for in this way only can he destroy all belief of evil as power for himself and others who come to him for help. It is right, however, that those who profess the Science of Christianity be not provincial, for divine intelligence knows no narrowness; it is an all-embracing, all-pervading interest and love. It therefore becomes the duty of the Christian Scientist to avoid both the Scylla of walking in the clouds and being unable to see his human brother, and the Charybdis of trying to keep one foot on the quicksands of material pleasure and the other on the rock of scientific demonstration.

Just here The Christian Science Monitor has a distinct mission. In any issue of this paper will be found articles of interest and value to every member of the community. One who had lived in South America for years said that since his return to the United States he had learned from the pages of this newspaper more interesting and unusual things about that country than he had learned during all his long stay there. There are articles for the business man and the housewife, for the mature thinker and the child, for the athlete, the traveler, and the financier, for the college student, the family circle, the merchant, the farmer, the lawyer, and in addition an advertising medium which proclaims the truth about wares we may need.

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