CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL

1898—A Hundred Years of Watching and Holding Guard—1998

The Editors

Over the last two decades, the speed at which mankind communicates globally has been causing the world to shrink more and more each day. People who have access to television, regular and shortwave radio, the Internet, and the rapidly growing volume of printed information are finding that more information than can ever be fully processed is immediately at their fingertips.

A changing world has demanded a Christian Science Sentinel that is wisely adapted to the times. You can see from the samples how, in its early years and through the last two decades, the content, covers, and layout evolved to bring the Sentinel's healing message to its readers.

Prayer, watching, listening, and more prayer have gone into each progressive step of the Sentinel. Over the last two years this had led The Christian Science Publishing Society once again to bring the Christian Science Sentinel, as in its original format, to the standard size of most magazines of the day. Beginning with the next issue, you'll see a Sentinel that is 10 3/8" high and 8 1/8" wide.

The design and layout will certainly be different, fresh, and innovative, yet there will be a familiar feel to its content. The editorial content will continue to reflect, with spiritual depth and clarity, the mission of the magazine, "to hold guard over Truth, Life, and Love."^{Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353.} The Sentinel's spiritual foundation and purpose are permanent, and the magazine will be doing even more in its new design to help readers watch emerging trends and events, bringing spiritual solutions and promoting effective prayer and healing.

For example, in the early Sentinels through 1917, a column appeared that was titled "Items of Interest." As part of the Sentinel's purpose to watch the world from a spiritual perspective, this column is being brought back. Although the original feature included a broad assortment of general news items, the new version will provide brief items relating to current trends of thought in science, theology, and medicine, as well as other relevant areas.

In the first installment of the Sentinel retrospective series, we mentioned how we had been looking at a photo album of sorts, one documenting the evolution of the Christian Science Sentinel. The new design has resulted from the humble prayer, dedication, and hard work of many people to bring the Sentinel's message to the world in its most effective form, in a form that is true to the hope, healing, and regeneration promised in its content. We pray daily that the Christian Science Sentinel fulfills its mission wherever it's needed.

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