On the twenty-fifth day of November, 1908, Mrs. Eddy launched The Christian Science Monitor. Her announcement regarding all the Christian Science periodicals headed ''Something In a Name" is today reiterating itself just as inspirationally, just as understandingly, just as imperatively as though it were being heard for the first time.
Name, as often used, designates authority and represents individuality and character. When God told Moses, "Bring up this people," and Moses prayed, "Thou hast said, I know thee by name," he understood that God had commissioned him for His service. Moses knew that he was under divine authority.
Mrs. Eddy named all the Christian Science periodicals. When she named The Christian Science Monitor she designated its character, and outlined its individuality. She authorized its purpose, "to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353).
