Article September 2, 1916 Issue

Unlimited Views

THORWALD SIEGFRIED

Finite, material sense is no less limited and finite in its attitude toward The Christian Science Monitor than it is toward any other product of the discovery of Christian Science. If students of Christian Science sometimes express circumscribed beliefs regarding the Monitor, it is only proof that the day referred to by Mrs. Eddy on page 584 of Science and Health, in which "the objects of time and sense disappear," has not yet been recognized by them.

Mrs. Eddy's declared purpose in establishing the Monitor was to have it "spread undivided the Science that operates unspent" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353). Its method of doing this includes the telling of the world's news so that its readers awake to the fact that only the good is fundamentally true and real, and that the world's story is no less complete and much truer because of the refusal to elevate evil out of its native oblivion. Editorially, the Monitor recognizes good wherever it appears, bringing encouragement to many a worthy endeavor to which this recognition is as water in a desert land.

It follows that any use of the Monitor based on the belief that it spreads Christian Science only through the article on some particular application of this teaching, as printed on the Home Forum page of each issue, is a very partial, limited, and incomplete use. This is no less true of its use by a student of Christian Science as a part of his own reading than of its use as literature for presentation to others. For example, an editorial commending the good will shown in some human endeavor for the uplift of all men, may be equally useful as a recognition of good in those who may believe themselves opposed to Christian Science on sectarian or other grounds, and also as a reminder to Scientists that individual failure to recognize the budding thought of man's universal brotherhood as of God, is not the sign of mental alertness. So also the presence of news about all right activities, and the absence of so-called news about wrong ones, makes the Monitor a daily mentor for the thought of any reader, whatever his religious affiliations may be.

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