From its first issue in April of 1903, The Herald of Christian Science has been more than just a magazine. It's been a mission. A mission to broadcast to the world the revolutionary good news in Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The Herald's founder summarized its mission in nine words: "to proclaim the universal activity and availability of Truth."First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353.
If ever a periodical grew out of public demand, the Herald did. For several years, readers of Science and Health in Germany implored Mary Baker Eddy and The Christian Science Publishing Society to provide a German periodical.
And Mary Baker Eddy responded. She asked the Trustees of the Publishing Society as early as 1900 to launch a German-language periodical, one that would be distinct from the English periodicals she'd already founded—the monthly Christian Science Journal and the weekly Christian Science Sentinel.
