The Sentinel Discontinued
THE following announcement appeared in The Sentinel of Christian Liberty for February 11:— After giving the matter careful consideration, and taking counsel with representative brethren, the publishers of the Sentinel have decided to suspend the publication of the paper with this issue. It is proper that a statement should be made, giving the reasons for this action. They will be found in the following facts:— 1. For causes which it is not necessary to enumerate, the subscription list has been gradually falling off for several years, until the present circulation is so small that the paper is not meeting the purpose for which it was established. 2. A very large part of the subscribers are now members of our own denomination, who can be reached through our other periodicals. 3. The publishers do not feel warranted in incurring the heavy loss which is now sustained by the publication of the paper when the instruction can be given to a large majority of its readers through other channels. 4. The effort necessary to increase the subscription list so that the paper would be self-supporting, would, it is believed, yield larger returns if expended in behalf of our other publications. 5. The publication of the paper can readily be resumed, if a change of circumstances should render it advisable. More attention will hereafter be given in the REVIEW AND HERALD and The Signs of the Times to those subjects which have been presented in the columns of the Sentinel, and the publishers of the Signs will consider the advisability of issuing occasional special numbers devoted to these questions as occasion may demand.