The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

that would be so forceful or so timely as the announcement made by Mrs. Eddy when she established the Christian Science Journal. We quote as follows from her article, "A Timely Issue as 1t appears In Miscellaneous Writiugs.:
 Looking over the newspapers of the day, one naturally reflects that ir IS dan- gerous to live, so loaded with disease seems the very air These descriptions carry fears to many minds, to be depicted in some future time upon the body. A periodical of cur own will counteract to some exfent this public nuisance; for through our paper. at the price at which we shall issue it, we shall be able to reach many homes with healing, purifying thought
 Tt will be the mission of the Monitor to publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner, devoid of the sensational methods employed by so many newspapers. There will be no ex- ploitation or illustration of vice and crime, but the aim of the editors will be to issue a paper which will be welcomed in every home where purity and refine ment are cherished ideals. It is intended that the Monitor shall contain. in addi-
 ton to the usual news features of the best city papers, such special depart ments as will make it home paper of
 
 to good men and women everywhere who are interest Id in the bettermens of all
 human conditions and the moral and spir- itual advancement of the race. From tiie news stu :dpoins rf;c Monito' VII be of far wider scope than a merely local daily
 would cover and will be read with inter- est from Maine to California and from
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 | The first issue of the Monitor will ap- | pear on December 1, and in the meantime | subscriptions are being sent in. Of the | need of such paper that shall be entire- | ly free of all sensational methods and | that shall print the news about all that | is good and beautiful and shall refrain 1 from the exploitation of disease and de- ! grading types, the assistant editor Tn the | Sentinel writes:
 "Yet more sadly significant is the fact l that Christian educators md leaders so I far fail to recognize tfr t&usal relation | of general thought upon disease to the in- | crease of susceptibility to disease, that l they commend It's study to all the peo- plei Every intelligent man knows that l a public hanging, whether by mob or | by the constituted authorities, tends to | demoralize the onlookers and to multi ply crime He knows that the rehearsal l of obscenity, whether in books or at the 1 loungers' corner, conduces to an ever- deepening pollution He knows, too. that | to picture disease is to excite the imagf- nation and quicken the fear of the sen- 1 sitive, until sporadic case of illness I oftimes develops into a sweeping con l tagion Nevertheless, even religious peri odicals are still lending themselves to the perpetuation of this wrong A New York Christian weekly recently detailed the ravages of dread disease, and be- spoke universal interest in the novelty of country fair exhibits of it's frightening , facts!
 ''These things seem no less saddenine than inexplicable, and they give an added emphasis to the importance of that wal upon the fallacies of material sense which the truths of Christian Science are mak- ing. It's appeal to all men today was voiced by St. Paul when he said to the Philippians: 'Brethern, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are lovely
 whatsoever things are of good report; Il there be any virtue, and if there be any praise think on these things; and one ol the striking differences between the at