Article February 23, 1899 Issue

The Sentinel

with contributions from C. Henry Clark, Emeline A. Merriaman

I pause to salute the Sentinel. With true military genius, our beloved Leader has set this watchman on the tower, and how faithfully it shall fulfil its mission is foretold in its past record. Its modest bow of infancy; its manly growth of vigorous youth; and now at the age of its Weekly majority it steps forth as the ever vigilant Christian Science Sentinel, only twenty-one weeks from its inception.

How aptly the words of the Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel, 3:15—21) seem to apply to this hour, and again to be echoed along our lines with the admonition to watch with greater vigilance. The faithful Sentinel, who is never found slumbering at his post of duty, or lulled into stupefaction by plausible pretenses, will, from his post on the watch-tower, from whence he scans the mental horizon, sound the note of warning, whenever the enemy seeks to penetrate our lines.

From thousands of grateful hearts all over our land and on foreign shores there arises a song of thanksgiving today for the monthly visitant, our beloved Journal, replete with the joyful tidings which come from those redeemed from sin and misery, through the ministrations of this new-old gospel of Christian Science. But with equal welcome the more frequent call of the little Weekly has won its way to our hearts, and we rejoice to see it emerge from its swaddling-clothes and rise to the full stature of manhood as the Sentinel upon the watch-tower of Zion's wall. May God, Good, speed it upon its mission, and may its bugle-note arouse a slumbering world to see its great need, and to find that need supplied in the all-inclusive bounty of a loving Father, as revealed in Christian Science.

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