What a wave of pleasant and challenging excitement must have swept through the building at 569 Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, on a certain day in the early spring of 1883! The printer had just delivered to this building, then serving as the offices and residence of Mary Baker Eddy, the first copies of the first issue of her first periodical, Journal of Christian Science. later to be called The Christian Science Journal.
Already Founder of a great religious movement which had reinstated Christian healing and was to become world embracing; already author and publisher of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" already planting the seed of vast regenerative blessing for humanity through her own healing and teaching activity, the Discoverer of Christian Science had now established herself as publisher of a religious periodical, the official organ of the Christian Science denomination.
Since the world today knows Mrs. Eddy so well for her publishing achievements, honoring her also for her many other foundational works as Leader of the Christian Science movement, so may her followers take special note of her outstanding success as a publisher—yes, her unmatched genius in the publishing field. They may rejoice that throughout the professional publishing world The Christian Science Publishing Society is esteemed and cited as a unique example of remarkable publishing success. Wherever daily newspapers are discussed and the world's outstanding few are mentioned, The Christian Science Monitor is invariably included, and thus the founder of that newspaper takes rank among history's great newspaper publishers, for she conceived it, directed its launching and establishment, and was thus responsible for making it the great journalistic beacon light that it is today.
