Those who are involved in the publication of The Christian Science Monitor are as mindful as other business or professional people that they must work hard to get the news, to sell advertising, to process subscriptions, and to increase circulation. Like other professionals, Monitor workers are basically concerned with making their newspaper the best possible and getting it to the public.
But because this newspaper is published by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, its business and editorial staff approach their work from a standpoint of spiritual authority that is perhaps not quite like other professionals.
They are mindful of the mandate of Mary Baker Eddy, the Church's Founder, who said her newspaper was named "Monitor, to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent. The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353;
