Mary Baker Eddy, who founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908, used interesting verbs to describe the functions of each of the periodicals she established. She wrote of these periodicals: "The first was The Christian Science Journal, designed to put on record the divine Science of Truth; the second I entitled Sentinel, intended to hold guard over Truth, Life, and Love; the third, Der Herold der Christian Science, to proclaim the universal activity and availability of Truth; the next I named Monitor, to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353.
The sequence of verbs Mrs. Eddy uses—put on record, hold guard, proclaim, spread —shows a great sense of movement. This is only natural when we consider that the purpose of the activity of her Church that sends out these publications— The Christian Science Publishing Society—is "... for the promotion of the interests of Christian Science." Manual of The Mother Church, Art. XXV, Sect. 1. The term promote is derived from the Latin, meaning to "move forward."
The Christian Science Monitor was the last of the publications founded by Mrs. Eddy. It unselfishly "moves forward" the welfare of mankind by providing the kind of journalism that leads to a more informed and inspired citizenry—by removing the ignorance that enslaves, by presenting the intelligence that leads to progress.
