The Editors thought present-day contributors and readers might enjoy seeing the following announcement. It was published during the time of Mrs. Eddy's close supervision of the periodicals. After some eighty-five years we still wouldn't change a line of it! (In fact, we're tempted to highlight certain sentences.) Underneath the slightly formal, ordered prose are some sharp, if genteel, reminders to us all—Editors included! The editorial was written by Judge Septimus J. Hanna and appeared in the January 11, 1900, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
We have recently spoken of the satisfaction afforded us by the generous manner in which our co-workers of the Field have supported our publications, in the way of writing articles and testimonials. We again wish to bear testimony to our deep appreciation of this support, and once more express our thanks therefor.
As a more explicit expression of our thanks we make the following suggestions, feeling sure that our beloved co-workers will respond in kind, for we are all laboring for the good of our sacred Cause, and whatever benefits the Cause benefits also each individual worker, and whatever tends to the injury of the Cause tends also to the injury of the individual worker.
