The
establishment of The Christian Science Monitor by Mary Baker Eddy came as the inevitable and natural unfoldment of her love for humanity, as did the founding of her Church.
Realizing
that a right concept of the infinite is necessary to one's happiness and well-being, spiritually-minded men in all ages have striven for a better understanding of God, often voicing the prayerful desire of Job (23:3), "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!"
One
of Christ Jesus' most effective ways of awakening his hearers to a realization of their relationship to God and their divine inheritance was to make it clear to them that they were children of the one, or only, Father.
Mary Baker Eddy,
the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says on page 1 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "To kindle all minds with a gleam of gratitude, the new idea that comes welling up from infinite Truth needs to be understood.
