Days after receiving Mary Baker Eddy's request to start a daily newspaper, editor-designate Archibald McLellan wrote to assure her that "no time has been lost" in launching this new idea in journalism.
"We have not a newspaper at our command through which to right the wrongs and answer the untruths . . . ." —Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health, 2nd edition, 1878, p.166)
". . .we have been in consultation with practical newspaper men who are Christian Scientists, McLellan continued, naming his two main consultants, "Mr. Dodds, Managing Editor of the Pittsburgh Sun, and Mr. Flinn, Editorial writer of the Chicago inter-Ocean. The consensus of opinion is that the 'Monitor' must be fully able to compete with the established daily newspapers and to compare favorably with the best of them."Archibald McLellan to Mary Baker Eddy, August 13, 1908, The Mary Baker Eddy Collection, The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.
