"TO PROCLAIM THE UNIVERSAL ACTIVITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRUTH"—MARY BAKER EDDY
The 1930s. A time of financial instability in Europe and the United States, brought about by a depression that, for a while, seemed only to deepen. Serious unemployment in many places. Then, in Germany, a man named Adolf Hitler came to power, and Italian leader Benito Mussolini was preparing to send his army into Ethiopia, determined to restore the glories of Rome.
In the midst of these developments, a new edition of The Herald of Christian Science was launched, and it would be followed after the war by the provision of another European Herald. The timely arrival of these two new editions brought comfort to people during the war and after it.
