As this issue of the Sentinel goes forth, men, women, and children in many parts of the earth are, in one way or another, preparing for the great Christian celebration of Christmas.
How
wisely did the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, choose the name for her weekly periodical when she titled it Christian Science Sentinel! And how appropriate is the challenging message of Christ Jesus which appears on the cover of each issue, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch".
A thought-provoking
title for one of the Lesson-Sermons appearing twice yearly in the Christian Science Quarterly is "Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.
In
the seventeenth chapter of John we may read one of the most wonderful prayers ever given, the prayer of Christ Jesus which he prayed before his trial and crucifixion.
Forty-eight
years ago at this season Mary Baker Eddy was asked by the Boston Globe to send "a sentiment on what the last Thanksgiving Day of the nineteenth century should signify to all mankind".
When
Christ Jesus offered his great prayer known to us as the Lord's Prayer, it was in response to a request for instruction from one of his disciples.
