Mary Baker Eddy gave us this magazine. She writes in Retrospection and Introspection, "The first official organ of the Christian Scientist Association was called Journal of Christian Science. I started it, April, 1883, as editor and publisher.
"To the National Christian Scientist Association, at its meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, June, 1889, I sent a letter, presenting to its loyal members The Christian Science Journal, as it was now called, and the funds belonging thereto. This monthly magazine had been made successful and prosperous under difficult circumstances, and was designed to bear aloft the standard of genuine Christian Science." Ret., pp. 52, 53;
Since 1898 (when the Deed of Trust put The Christian Science Publishing Society on its present basis) the Journal has borne on its cover the designation "Official Organ of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts." Founded in 1883 by Mrs. Eddy, it had carried from the start all her communications to the Field and other reports of interest to the movement. Though the Sentinel, with its advantage of more frequent publication, became Mrs. Eddy's first line of communication by 1900, even then important messages were repeated in the Journal, which included, as now, the official listings of practitioners and of branch churches. Later the listings of college organizations and of Christian Science nurses were added to the Journal.
