Article December 29, 1997 Issue

Prayer for the media

On February 24, 1900, Mary Baker Eddy, who would later found The Christian Science Monitor, sent a request to First Readers in Christian Science branch churches, asking them to pray each day for the press. Her message read in part: "I request that you pray once every day for the principal Editors of the principal periodicals, in your city, and for the clergymen in your pulpits. The lying influence sent forth to deceive our clergymen and our pressmen, would, 'if possible, deceive the very elect.' This must be met with a counteracting influence through prayer. Let Truth be heard above error, and God will bless your efforts. Jesus saith, 'All things are possible to him who believeth.'"^{Church History department, The First Church of Christ, Scientist (Boston, Massachusetts): LO2605.}