The directives launching
The Christian Science Monitor were blunt.
In essence:
Start a daily newspaper.
Start it at once.
The Cause demands it.
I have nothing to add. Those in charge must do it themselves.
Mary Baker Eddy's instructions came with what was, in the turn of the 20th-century world, news-bulletin speed. It was July 1908. Four months later, in the first issue's lead editorial, came two statements from Mrs. Eddy that would set the new publishing venture's course with a distinct mission and objective:
