In its ninety-year history, The Christian Science Monitor has won a fair share of journalism awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes. Perhaps more important, it has won readers' hearts to a fairer view of humanity, supplying realism that is both truthful and respectful. The Journal offers this occasional column to record what Monitor readers say this newspaper means to them.
I Find That Reading the Monitor has been very good for my mental health. I used to slip into depressed states of thought. The study of Christian Science has helped me challenge the first signs of the mental darkness so it doesn't take so long to get out of them. But during the worst times, I was always amazed that reading the Monitor would lighten my thoughts in a way that gave me courage to get up and do something rather than just to wallow.
In talking to a Christian Science practitioner, I asked him what it was about the Monitor that would do this, especially when at that time I wasn't very responsive to the more specifically religious literature. He said it was because the Monitor helps to defend our mission with humanity by encouraging us to think unselfishly.
