After her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy selected only those means for its expansion which were directed by divine Mind. There was spiritual import in every step she took. Because of this, the rude hand of time and opposition can never tear apart the pages of the writings given to her by God; nor can her Church, expressive of His spiritual idea, ever be destroyed; nor can the Manual of The Mother Church, reiterating the spiritual sense of government, ever fail to express eternal law.
All forms constituting the organization of Christian Science give an inkling of those spiritual facts in the universe of Mind without which the human organization would be barren and fruitless. Every material object indicates or hints the existence of a spiritual idea. Thus it is that the spiritual cause gives impulse to the lower forms. These activities are spiritually governed and controlled in the degree that human consciousness permits the irradiance of Spirit to shed on them its reflected light.
The Christian Science Monitor is one of these activities. In directing that its publication be undertaken. Mrs. Eddy in a letter of August 8, 1908, to the Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society said, "The Cause demands that it be issued now." Thus she gave urgent voice to that impulsion from divine Mind evidencing the spiritual idea which the paper symbolizes. To the discerning Christian Scientist it is not a newspaper in the ordinary sense. It is the outward manifestation of an eternal truth. It is the witness of a forever fact. Its advent was inevitable and unescapable, even as light emits light.
