It has seemed, on reading over this page of last month's Journal, that it was a singular omission on our part to leave out in our prospectus and notes, the mention of the remarkable growth of the Journal of Christian Science under the editorship of its founder Mrs. Eddy, who started the paper at the request of her students, single handed and alone, to lead its untried steps upon Puritan, conservative soil, alongside haughty contemporaries,—to double, treble, quadruple its subscribers and exchanges in a single year.
By some misunderstanding of the Secretary's report, the statement of the Journal's subscription list was greatly underestimated, many of the students' names upon the books each representing from five to twenty subscribers not mentioned, whose papers are sent to the students' addresses and not directly to the subscribers themselves.
One English scientific society ordered a hundred copies at once for circulation among its members, and the number of copies sold to casual buyers has run the circulation to from one thousand to two or three thousand at many single issues.
