Article July 2, 1938 Issue

The Christian Science Monitor—Our Missionary at Home and Abroad

ELEANOR EDITH KELLY

Are we, as Christian Scientists, individually grateful for all the avenues of good provided by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy? If so, we must be increasingly thankful for the Christian Science periodicals, including the Monitor.

Sometimes one may think that reading a newspaper is not very necessary to his spiritual progress, or that he can further the Cause of Christian Science without reading about affairs which he considers outside the movement. But The Christian Science Monitor is a necessary part of the activities of our organization. It was founded by our Leader, and she stated that its object is "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353). It was established as a means through which to present that which is right and just in human affairs, and to expose that which is wrong; to help men understand the fact that they are brothers, having one Father. Its primary purpose is healing, for it helps all who read it to forsake wrong thoughts about themselves and about one another. The Monitor is more than a daily newspaper catering to a particular locality or country. It is an international newspaper, of necessity printed in Boston, but having its own correspondents in many parts of the world.

When the writer reached the point in her study of Christian Science where she began to think of subscribing for the Monitor, and had some of the usual arguments with which to contend, she was greatly helped by remembering her former connection with a so-called orthodox church, and the amount of missionary work in which from earliest childhood she had been engaged. From the time when she was in a juvenile sewing class, busily engaged in making dolls' clothes to be sent to India for children in the mission schools of that country, up to the time she left that church, missionary work occupied a large portion of her thought and time. In later years she helped this work financially, as her circumstances warranted. She had been brought up to believe that her religion was something to share with others, and was well worth sharing, and that it was her duty to do so. Therefore, she never thought of missionary work in any other way.

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