Article April 29, 2002 Issue

---- 100 years ago

with contributions from James Martineau, W. A. Nichols

GATHERING NEWS STORIES with a spiritual perspective week by week, we wondered what kinds of material the Sentinel of a century ago carried. We found the magazine Mary Baker Eddy was publishing in its early years filled with newsy, topical essays, articles, jokes, and tidbits—often excerpted from other magazines and newspapers—that spoke to a broad world audience. Here is a glimpse into the Sentinel of about 100 years ago.

You are always as young as you feel

"People grow old by thinking themselves old. When they reach the age of forty, fifty, or sixty, they imagine that they look like others of the same age, and that they soon will be useless, unfit for work, and unable to perform their wonted duties. As surely as they this, it will come true, for thought is creative. How many of us can say, with Job, 'The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me.'. . .

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