Article July 15, 1950 Issue

The Mission of The Christian Science Monitor

By Miss Josephine Ripley, Washington Staff Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor

Many people, probably, would like to know how to get a job on The Christian Science Monitor. I got mine by going through class. For my writing career on the Monitor goes directly back to that experience.

It all came about because of my decision to go through class on the Pacific Coast. I was living in Boston at the time, and that decision made it necessary for me to prove each year that it would be possible for me to make the long trip across the country to my association meeting. This necessity led to various free-lance assignments for the Monitor to help finance my western journey. These assignments and the experience I gained from them led eventually to a job on the reportorial staff of the paper. This was a natural outcome. My thought had been opened to wider horizons, and that broader range of thinking expressed itself in my human experience.

And isn't that just what the Monitor does—open our thought to wider horizons? It takes us as Christian Scientists out into the world of human affairs. That is an important going forth these days—important to a troubled world that needs the untroubled, healing influence of Christian Science thinking.

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