On the morning of the day before Thanksgiving, in the year 1908, Mrs. Eddy called the members of her household into her study. "Seated at her desk," we read in Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy by Irving C. Tomlinson, "perusing with deepest interest the first copy of her great newspaper, she asked us if it were a dark morning. 'Yes,' replied one, 'a heavy fog makes it darker than usual'.... Mrs. Eddy replied: 'Yes, but only according to sense. We know the reverse of error is true. This, in truth, is the lightest day of all days. This is the day when our daily paper goes forth to lighten mankind...!'" Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy,pp. 106, 107;
"The establishing of the Monitor, Mrs. Eddy regarded as one of the greatest of all her steps,"Historical Sketches, p. 131; Judge Clifford P. Smith tells us.
Why was this? How could the first day of the Monitor be referred to as "the lightest day of all days"?
