Article September 13, 1930 Issue

The Christian Science Monitor

ETHEL MUNRO GOSS

IN the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor, which appeared November 25, 1908, in writing of her purpose in naming the several periodicals she established, our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, said of this newspaper: "The next I named Monitor, to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent. The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353).

The Christian Science organization with its various activities is fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah, "Prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people." The Monitor, as one of these activities, is helping to arouse the world out of its apathy and inertia in spiritual things by encouraging respect for the best in human activity. Thus, it publishes interesting news about homes, education, and sports. As these better concepts of human activities are proclaimed, and their value and practicality pointed out, mankind will gradually adopt them, and in this way become ready for more spiritual ideas, until the whole earth is redeemed, according to Jesus' words, "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear."

The Monitor is proclaiming the gospel of good will, of brotherhood, of unity between nations. It is raising up the standard of purity, honesty in business, truth in advertising, justice in private and international affairs. It is advocating the best in literature and the arts, separating the true from the false, the sincere from the insincere, the tawdry, and the mediocre. It is encouraging every effort toward reform in the home, in the school, in the state. It is consistently leading public opinion along the highway of constructive thinking, gathering out the stones of greed, impurity, racial prejudice. It is making the nations known to each other in the sharing of their various ideas on education, home, art, and government, and so encouraging mutual trust among the peoples of the earth. It is raising up a standard of high ideals, of right thinking, and of clean living, the standard of moral and spiritual beauty. It is always enlisted in the cause of righteousness and is fighting a battle against the seeming forces of evil, against all that would degrade and enslave mankind. It is fighting the foe of ignorance by bringing enlightenment on great public questions which may have been falsely represented through wrong influence.

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