Article April 28, 1951 Issue

READING OUR DAILY NEWSPAPER

KIMMIS HARTLEY HENDRICK

Many things have been said about how to read a daily newspaper. It has been recommended, for instance, that the reader begin with the article in the upper right-hand corner of the first page, since the chief item of interest is usually placed there. Another recommendation advises reading the editorials in connection with the news items to which they refer. Such pointers are useful, but another one is even more useful to the Christian Scientist, and it can serve him well in reading The Christian Science Monitor.

This point is always to seek the meaning of the news, its spiritual significance. That everything occurring humanly has significance, the Christian Scientist does not doubt. He knows that even an untoward report max deserve attention as indicating the presumption of error to attempt to obscure or reverse the appearing of good. But the Christian Scientist, knowing God's omnipotence and the consequent nothingness of error, is especially prepared to rejoice with the prophet (Isa. 52:7), "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings."

One student learned how beautiful the bearing of good tidings is when he was serving as evening attendant in a Christian Science Reading Room. The room had just been relocated, and few people had found it. On the evening recalled, the student took over his duties feeling unwell, and the inactivity of the Reading Room seemed to echo the sense of depression that had swept over him. He was endeavoring to realize the allness of God, good, but God seemed far away.

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