Article November 21, 1959 Issue

THANKSGIVING IN RETROSPECT

FLOYD C. SHANK

It was on November 25, 1908, the day before Thanksgiving Day, that the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor was printed and sent forth to the world. That unprecedented occasion was the cause of great rejoicing and gratitude on the part of the loyal followers of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, for it was the fulfillment of her long-cherished desire to provide her followers, and the world, with a full-scale daily newspaper as an organ of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

This longing of our Leader had earlier found expression in the following words preserved for us in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 7): "Looking over the newspapers of the day, one naturally reflects that it is dangerous to live, so loaded with disease seems the very air. These descriptions carry fears to many minds, to be depicted in some future time upon the body. A periodical of our own will counteract to some extent this public nuisance; for through our paper, at the price at which we shall issue it, we shall be able to reach many homes with healing, purifying thought."

Twenty-five years after establishing The Christian Science Journal, our Leader reached her goal of publishing a daily newspaper.

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