Fifty years ago Mary Baker Eddy founded a daily newspaper which she named The Christian Science Monitor for a reason unprecedented in the history of journalism. Writing of her names for all the Christian Science periodicals, she says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 353), "The next I named Monitor, to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent."
In half a century of publication the Monitor has won extraordinary respect for its fidelity to this ideal. But the Christian Scientist, convinced that all achievement is fundamentally individual, rightly asks himself as he dwells appreciatively on the Monitor's founding, "Am I accomplishing its objective in my daily life?"
To the Christian Scientist, "the Science that operates unspent" is the Science of God and man, the perfect law of God, which constitutes and maintains divine order, and this Science is necessarily "undivided" as well as "unspent." Its essence is the eternality of man's unity with God, the sole, infinite Principle of all existence. Any suggestion of dividedness, whether of man from God or of man from his brother man, belongs wholly to false material sense. This sense is exposed in Christian Science as mesmeric, but is always annullable because never true.
