The Christian Science Monitor is no ordinary newspaper. Mary Baker Eddy started it, not just to publish the news of human events, but to bless humanity. “To injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” was how she defined the “object” of the Monitor. She also described the Monitor’s purpose as “to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353).
That purpose makes the Monitor as much a part of the healing and saving mission of The Church of Christ, Scientist, as The Christian Science Journal and other periodicals issued by The Christian Science Publishing Society.
As with everything else about human experience, Christ Jesus is our model on how to deal with the news. One time, a father came to Jesus and told him that his son was “lunatic, and sore vexed: for oftimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water” (see Matthew 17:14–21).
