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Reg. $62.90 $4718 WTCOOf ICMMOOECOTSt HARVARD SQUARE cuamoe COOPATLONGWOOD rmmt niONGWOCOAVE FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 49M000 embarked on a fund-raising campaign to endow the Monitor, and they eventually collected $40 million. In 1983, the church hired Katherine Fanning, who had led an Alaska newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize, as editor of the Monitor. In her first year, foreign and Washington bureaus expanded and advertising offices opened across the country. Although the newspaper was still losing money, circulation was rebounding.

With the endowment and the board's backing, the future of the Monitor seemed assured. Harvey Wood had other ideas. Wood, who joined the board of directors in 1977, had been intrigued by television for decades. In the 1950s, after graduating from Tulane University, in New Orleans, Wood had been one of the moderators of the church's first foray into television, a series called How Christian Science Heals. (Hal Friesen, who was a guest on the series, recounted the story of his healing from shell shock.

Years later, he became an ally of Wood's as a director and then a publishing-society trustee. Friesen's fortunes rose and fell with the church's television aspirations, and he resigned, along with Wood, in March.) Wood, a native Texan who settled in Chicago, gained a reputation among Scientists in the 1960s as a compelling lecturer and teacher. He wore long sideburns and turtlenecks and often conducted class in parks or on the beach. As a director, Wood sought innovative solutions to the church's decline, and he studied experiments in television and computers conducted by the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Like Knapp's Florida adherents, Wood became preoccupied with Mrs.

Eddy's prediction that, by the end of this century, all Christians would be Scientists. The difference was that Wood expected the world to be converted not by the greenhouse effect or by depletion of the ozone layer but by electronic communication and global telethons. And Wood himself was going to lead the awakening. tors and other church officials and practitioners were praying for them. Their subsequent prize-winning series elicited $10,000 in donations from readers to a charitable agency.

"Children in Darkness" epitomized the Monitor at its best: constructive journalism that explored international problems in the hope of ameliorating them. Besieged by scandal-sheet rumors that she was dead, mentally incompetent, or undergoing surgery, the 87-year-old Mrs. Eddy had founded the Monitor in 1908, two years before her death, to provide objective journalism blended with a religious mission. Although advisers feared alienating the secular audience, Mrs. Eddy insisted on keeping "Christian Science" in the title.

She envisioned that all Scientists would read the newspaper and pray to heal the fallen world. The Monitor developed into the only widely respected American newspaper run by a church. Staffed almost exclusively by Christian Scientists, it covered every beat except medicine. Rarely did its pages allude to alcohol, cigarettes, or other forbidden substances. When a dispatch from Beirut mentioned the tea brewed by Lebanese peasants, an editor changed the reference to "a hot beverage." (Tea contains caffeine, which is off limits).

In the Monitor, as in Christian Science theology, people do not die; they pass on. One World War I correspondent wrote, "The battlefield was littered with passed-on mules." The paper printed a daily homily, and the board of directors reviewed editorials before publication. Wealthy, right-wing Scientists lobbied the directors, even chartering a train from Orange County, California, to Boston in the 1930s to accuse the Monitor of insufficiently staunch Republicanism. While the board did demote one editor suspected of favoring Franklin Roosevelt, it generally avoided interfering with the newsroom. Partly because it would not accept liquor or cigarette ads, the Monitor rarely made money.

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