Article September 19, 1983 Issue

The Monitor and universal salvation

SARA TERRY

Not long ago an international diplomat of the highest rank came to visit The Christian Science Monitor. An avid reader of the newspaper, he had asked if he could come to Boston to learn more about its operations and staff.

While there, he spoke briefly to a newsroom gathering, commenting in substance, "You may think that what I say will be because I am a diplomat. But I mean it when I tell you that the Monitor is doing more to bring peace to the world than any other newspaper. I want to thank you for your good work, and encourage you to keep it up."

This man, intimately acquainted with global affairs, may not have known that Mary Baker Eddy established the Monitor "to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent."^{ The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353.} But he had felt and witnessed the effects of the paper's mandate in its healing impact on the world; he had glimpsed something of its universal mission.