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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
gratification to remember the kind support we have hitherto 
received from our friends, without which this Journal would 
not have been what it is. We trust in its continuance, so 
that our pages may become a faithful record of the state, the 
wishes, and the doings of the profession. We think we per¬ 
ceive some gleams of advance taking place among us, like 
the quiverings of early day before the sun rises in rich efful¬ 
gence, scattering the tarrying shades of night. But we 
yearn for a more earnest co-operation, assured that then all 
will be well. 
We are no strangers to the spirit of indifference that has 
crept over the minds of many of our members. But it is 
with communities as with the ocean, which has its spring 
and ordinary tides, its ebb and flow. We are all too much 
disposed to slumber. Be it ours to rouse from this state of 
lethargy; for we cannot think it is a time for folding the 
hands and indulging in luxurious ease. There remains 
much to be done by us as a body. As journalists, we are 
not sounding any alarm. We are only desirous of awakening 
the profession to a just sense of the position in which it 
stands. We have gained a status. To maintain and to 
advance it, continued efforts have yet to be made. As 
watchmen, we dare not shut our eyes to what is going on? 
nor close our ears to the wants that are expressed. We are 
desirous of co-operating, for we have a duty to perform, and 
have no wish to be mere spectators, but earnestly to put our 
shoulders to the wheel. It is the slothful man only who 
says, “ There is a lion without; I shall be slain.” 
From what has been already effected, there is much 
ground for encouragement. We have never cloaked our 
sense of the responsibility connected with our position ; and 
although we shrank not from the task, we have at times felt 
the duty to be somewhat oppressive, and now and then a 
fear has arisen in the mind lest we should be found unequal 
to the demands made upon us, from having other duties to 
perform; and, by one failure, damage the cause we had 
undertaken. Our desire has been to act impartially, to 
seek out what is new and interesting connected with our 
