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376 Thus Mrs. Eddy assumed full responsibility for the new publication, re-affirming the motto of her life as the motto of the new paper. If any doubt lay in the mind of the world as to who was the actual founder of the new paper it should have been dispelled by the editorial in the issue of the Sentinel, October 24, 1908, in which the editor thanked the Boston Herald for the respects paid to the forthcoming Monitor. The Herald had printed this paragraph:

Good luck to the coming Christian Science newspaper. Starting a daily paper is an enterprise that usually tests the courage and resources of the bravest and most resourceful souls. The graveyards are full of their remains.

“We hope,” said the editor of the Sentinel, “we shall not be considered boastful when we say that the progress of the Christian Science movement from its very beginning has been not one only, but a series of steps such as ‘usually test the courage and resources of the bravest and most resourceful souls;’ and that as an incentive to high endeavor we could have nothing better than the example of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, under whose guidance these steps have been taken successfully.”

And they were taken successfully. The new paper was cordially received by the press in all parts of the country, its appearance was veritably a demonstration of brotherhood, and this was the title of an editorial which appeared in the second number, closing with these words: