Students and workers, especially those isolated from other Scientists, are constantly meeting points in the practice or the letter of Science, on which they desire enlightenment or counsel. It is fair to assume that for one that writes to the Journal for a solution, there are scores or hundreds who have met the same difficulty, and whom the answer will interest equally. Those who have passed the points of experience raised by the questioners, will find profit to themselves, as well as do a service to the neighbor, in bringing out from their storehouse, things new and old. Many, in reading these questions, will be surprised that they themselves have never raised them; sometimes the surprise will be that it is so difficult to frame a clear and concise answer on points on which it never before occurred to them a question could be raised, or that they were important enough to raise a question about.
To many of them answers can be made in a few lines. Terseness of expression should always be aimed at. Some of them present fruitful themes for discussion in articles that will enrich the pages of the Journal.
How to stir and bring out thought that is the expression of experience is the constant study of the editor of the Journal. The presentation of the results of the meeting of the National Association at Cleveland, and the basis of Church and Dispensary organizations, have been, necessarily and appropriately, the leading features of the two last issues. Now that the foundations and the lines of the year's work are fairly traced and laid out, it is the time to bring out individual work and experience which are to constitute the year's contribution to the building of the Temple of Science and make manifest to human eyes its fair and stately proportions.
