Lessons from living "for all mankind"

Making the Monitor available to all mankind

As our understanding of the world grows, new ways will develop for meeting and learning about the world.

A Flower garden at summer's end provides visual beauty and armloads of cut flowers. Yet it isn't likely that the gardener pauses, when he is cutting flowers, to think of the barely visible seeds he had planted early in the spring.

One finds a similar situation when counting up the various ways in which The Christian Science Monitor is reaching mankind today. The daily newspaper has been joined, and its total mission strengthened, by daily domestic radio programs, twenty-four-hour-a-day broadcasting on a worldwide shortwave radio network, a monthly magazine, and numerous television programs.

The seeds for all these new manifestations of the Monitor were planted five years ago at the time of the worldwide videoconference. Mother Church members around the world were invited by The Christian Science Board of Directors to join in a rededication of the Christian Science movement to the service of mankind. At that time, the specific steps by which the activities of The Mother Church might be broadened were not yet apparent.

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