From the Editors March 21, 1988 Issue

We wish we had the appropriate season to go along with...

The Editors

We wish we had the appropriate season to go along with what we want to say. Christmas or Thanksgiving would be nice, but the season for gratitude is always at hand! So we'll just go ahead and say we feel tremendously grateful to all you readers and contributors.

In the past year we've seen a definite, strong new interest in supporting and appreciating the Christian Science periodicals, including the Sentinel. The number of new orders for the Sentinel has been increasing—more than 18 percent in the past year. Your help through individual giving and sharing of the Sentinel has begun to make a difference. (Incidentally, please understand we are not saying that Sentinel circulation as a whole has increased as yet—only that new orders are growing. There's still lots of work to be done!)

Unlike commercial ventures, publishing of the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science is something we do together. We greatly depend, for example, on your continuous flow of testimonies, articles, clippings for the various features in the Sentinel such as "Second Thought" and "Positive Press," and instances of sharing for the new "From hand to hand" item on the inside back cover.