Editorial August 28, 1948 Issue

THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF THE SENTINEL

John Randall Dunn

September 1, 1948, marks the fifty-year milestone of the weekly periodical of our movement. On the first of September, 1898, The Christian Science Publishing Society launched The Christian Science Weekly. Under the caption "Salutatory" appeared the following:

"We herewith launch a new publication in connection with our movement. The growing necessities of the situation seem to demand, at times, a speedier means of communication with the Field than our monthly Journal affords.

"New or amended By-Laws and Church Rules, which, from time to time, are passed to meet accruing needs and emergencies, should sometimes reach the field more promptly than is possible with only a monthly messenger. The Weekly is projected, in part at least, to meet this need. Then, too, our files contain many communications in the nature of experiences, testimonies, and dissertations which, for want of space in the Journal, must often be indefinitely laid aside or entirely withheld from publication, and which are too valuable and helpful to meet such a fate. The Weekly will tend to remedy this difficulty and afford an additional means of spreading the good word." Then follows this statement: "The Journal will be the mother publication; the Weekly its child."