Article December 1, 1986 Issue

The practical impact of the Monitor

Thomas Guy Slater

The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor isn't just another good newspaper, another commercial enterprise in a highly competitive market. I like to think of the Monitor as illustrating the true spirit of Christianity. The Monitor comes to humanity, not as something concerned with a future Utopia but as practically applicable to daily problems here and now.

I had an opportunity to see the practicality of the Monitor in my own life when my company needed a new sales manager from within our ranks. To my astonishment the choice fell on me. I had no relish for the job. I was a machine-shop worker, and my qualifications, even as an ordinary salesman, seemed to me to be zero. Nevertheless, I felt it was an opportunity and a challenge.

The first customer I visited lost no time in exposing my inexperience. I came home resolved to quit. I felt very much like a child desiring instruction but having no school to go to.

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