The Christian Science Monitor: its purpose, plans, and new format

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Christian Science Monitor's continuing purpose is being celebrated in this seventy-fifth anniversary year by special articles and advertisements in the Monitor itself, in The Christian Science Journal, and in the Sentinel.

This is a celebration of lives touched and enriched by The Christian Science Monitor. The Monitor's unique purpose envisioned by its God-inspired founder, Mary Baker Eddy, "to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent,"^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353.} is clearly being fulfilled in good measure. Consistent with Christianly scientific standards, however, we see this celebration as a vital preparatory step toward the Monitor's future endeavors and achievements. A new chapter in history is now opening for this vital member of the family of Christian Science periodicals.

The Science which the Monitor exists "to spread undivided" is vividly defined in Mrs. Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in a paragraph bearing the marginal heading "Practical Science." It begins, "The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man."^{Science and Health, p. 128.} Our Leader then goes on to describe the unlimited potential and the practical, healing effect of the laws of God as applied to human experience. In the series on the Monitor's "healing impact on individual lives," currently running in the Sentinel, our newspaper emerges as more than an introduction to Christian Science. It shows itself to be responsible for regeneration, purification, and expanded horizons in people's lives. A marvelous incentive, surely, for each one of us to open our thoughts more freely to the Monitor's spiritual mission, to receive the blessings it offers to us individually, to our neighbors, and to our world!