Article April 17, 1954 Issue

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR GOES FORTH WITH POWER

LACY BELL RICHTER

In the leading editorial of the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor, its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, first gives this divinely inspired publication its name and then sets forth its purpose. She speaks of the naming of all the Christian Science periodicals and concludes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353): "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."

A deeper appreciation of this periodical comes from carefully considering the full import of its Christly purpose—"to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent." A unique quality so permeates the Monitor that every issue goes forth with dynamic power. Its purpose is being increasingly fulfilled: to bring Christian Science to every corner of the earth, to every home, and to every public place astir with human activity. Christian Science Reading Room windows extend the Monitor's gift of spiritual enlightenment to the passer-by.

The unique quality of the Monitor derives from the Christ-idea, speaking to the human consciousness through the printed word and tenderly enveloping the world with the healing truth of God's supremacy. We see the Christly purpose of our newspaper operating with power and wisdom to heal the world's ills. We see it manifested in the impartial coverage and interpretation of world news; in the integrity of the editorial column, which calmly views and evaluates world affairs from a moral and spiritual standpoint. We see the Monitor's purpose reaching its readers, in whatever stage of spiritual progress they may be, through the refreshment, loveliness, and culture of The Home Forum page. We see the daily religious article unobtrusively attracting and inspiring the spiritually impoverished mentality. The charm of a poem, the warmth of an essay, the joyous release of humor by way of cartoon or anecdote, add to the Monitor's attractiveness.

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