It is a great joy to read The Christian Science Monitor. We need to make the necessary effort to make time for this reading. One feels that even in just reading it he is responding to its God-given mission. Supporting the Monitor in this way is serving the universal Cause of Christian Science.
Suggestions may present themselves to make us believe we don't have the desire or the opportunity to read the Monitor. These should be exposed as impositions and then seen as challenges to deepen our perception of the important role and useful possibilities of our newspaper. Whether the suggestions take the form of differences of opinion between the editorial writers and ourselves, lack of time to read the paper, or if English is not our native tongue-these and many others might well represent mortal thought's opposition to our individual ability to practice Christian Science in its universal dimension. Systematic reading of the Monitor is extremely enriching.
We also need to yield humbly to the divine Mind's guidance on how to deal with national and world problems through prayer. The inspired thought is expressed in the Bible: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isa. 55:8-11;
