I was in Australia a while back—sitting on a veranda watching a kookaburra swoop in to be fed. As my friend held out his hand to the bird, he asked me, "Why is your Church in journalism?" I was surprised by his question but found myself saying, "Well, people are affected by the way news is presented, and we feel we can help. It's really an aspect of the Christian Science Church's social action." He accepted that readily.
It was Mary Baker Eddy's overwhelming desire to help all mankind that led her to found an international daily newspaper. The paper's stated mission is "to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent."See Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353
The founding of The Christian Science Monitor put to silence the notion that the Science of Christ could be used simply as a way of achieving personal health and prosperity. Science could never be separated from Christianity nor its individual blessings enjoyed in isolation from humanity. The Monitor would address the world of human need from the healing perspective of "the Science that operates unspent."
