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are driven into the regions of the eternity gone by. Methinks 
I will attempt to soften the heart of the gloomy master of 
the Past : perchance he may return some hour which he has 
seized upon. I ask, I beg, I supplicate. — He smiles in de- 
rision , — ( Restore ! 5 saith he, c Thou fool, I have devoured 
them ; like Saturn with his sons, I have rent them limb from 
limb and fattened on them. See here this hour which thou 
thus vainly wastest is now in mine hands. Each monent of 
it is my food. See I will feed upon it/ ” 
The past year has been as eventful as many that have gone 
before it, and with some of these events we have now to do. 
We purpose not to give a resumes of what has been done, 
but only to touch on those prominent points which seem to 
show an onward progress. The task is a pleasant one, and 
we therefore enter upon it with accordant feelings ; our friends 
will therefore pardon us, should we happen to become a little 
prolix or tedious in the performance of our duty. Well do 
we know — 
“ A friend is worth all hazards we can run. 
Poor is the friendless master of a world.” 
It may be that there are those who blame us for having 
undertaken the duties of Editors, and think the Journal 
would have been better in other hands than ours. This we 
may be willing to concede to them, and have only to offer in 
extenuation what we stated in our initiatory address, and to 
which we refer our readers ; coupled with the fact, that we 
felt the duty had devolved upon us, and we were bounden to 
make an effort to supply the loss the profession had sus- 
tained. Nor do we regret having made the attempt. We 
have received many encouragements ; while the support we 
have already obtained is too obvious to need any comment. 
But with this we are not content. We must still go for- 
ward, for we have the same object in view with which we 
started — the advancement of the best interests of our pro- 
fession ; and we believe that our Journal may be made the 
instrument of promoting this, although it may be rather by 
the acts of others than our own ; for should any think that 
we arrogate to ourselves any superiority, they know us not ; 
