Readers write. Contributors write. Editors write. There is always a family dialogue going on via the Christian Science periodicals. The letters (and notes and calls) point out what would help and what has helped—ways we can do better and ways we can do more. The letters come from longstanding members and from newcomers.
The periodicals thrive on this kind of participation, but there is something else they need too. Mrs. Eddy speaks of it in a request originally published in the Journal. She asks her students and the students of her students to send "reading-matter" to the Editors of the Journal, at that time the only periodical other than the Christian Science Quarterly. Then she says, "Methinks, were they to contemplate the universal charge wherewith divine Love has entrusted us, in behalf of a suffering race, they would contribute oftener to the pages of this swift vehicle of scientific thought; for it reaches a vast number of earnest readers, and seekers after Truth" (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 155-156).
We hope this workshop from the Editors of the periodicals will encourage you to "contribute oftener." Perhaps it will help you take a fresh look at your own spiritual experience, your love of Truth, and what it is doing in your life. And maybe you'll feel that you have something new to share in a testimony, poem, or article with those earnest "seekers after Truth."
