When I was a young Christian Scientist, I used to get up at 5:00 a.m. and pick up The Christian Science Monitors at the bus station and put them in the news racks in San Jose, California. I did this for a number of years. Later, I sold the Monitor to city officials in San Jose.
I love our periodicals. Reading them has given me new ideas for how to pray for the world. They heal, educate, and further my understanding of Christian Science.
Over the last three years, I have studied the mission Mary Baker Eddy gave to the periodicals in the Monitor’s first editorial, which she titled “Something in a Name”: “The first was The Christian Science Journal, designed to put on record the divine Science of Truth; the second I entitled Sentinel, intended to hold guard over Truth, Life, and Love; the third, Der Herold der Christian Science, to proclaim the universal activity and availability of Truth; the next I named Monitor, to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent. The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353).
