Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1878, Vol. 5: A Monthly Bulletin of the Apostleship of Prayer
When, early in 1866, we began the publication of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart, we met with so many reasons for discouragement, and that even from quarters where we least expected it, that more than once we thought our humble Bulletin would die an early and untimely death. But that was not to be its fate. On the contrary, it has been so far successful, that our readers may see it now entering on its fifth volume of the second series, that is to say, the thirteenth of the entire work. For this it is our duty to thank our subscribers sincerely. Without their kind cooperation we should never have continued our work up to the present hour.
But let us candidly express the desire we have often entertained, of seeing the circulation of this Bulletin more widely spread. The answer that is returned to the expression of this desire is that times are hard; that readers of periodicals want news, they want pleasing stories; or, that there is no time to read so much. More than once we have passed our remarks upon these statements, and in particular we have explained why the Messenger has taken this form and style of subject-matter, and follows this plan of its own rather than any other. However, since many of our present readers may not know the reasons which we have before alleged, it will not be out of place to state them over again.
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