On the cover of the Christian Science Sentinel facing the list of titles is a drawing of a woman with a lamp. The pedestal on which she stands is inscribed with the following words from the poem "Santa Filomena" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.
The poem was Longfellow's tribute to Florence Nightingale, whose humanitarian love served to reduce sharply the casualties of the Crimean War. As the words are used on the cover of the Sentinel, they constitute a dedication to the work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
