In regard to the responsibility of Scientists generally for excellence and welfare of the Journal, some points occur to me as worthy of consideration.
In becoming the mouthpiece of an organized body, the Journal assumes more dignity and responsibility in every way. We do not wish to lose the freedom and freshness of the little child, however, in putting on a larger growth. We no longer have the personal motherhood of the founder to look to; but impersonal Love holds us just as closely in the family relations—indeed, we should more than ever regard each other as brothers and sisters.
Are we not rather in danger of doing too little than too much in the way of intercourse through the Journal columns? On one hand the thought arises: "I have nothing worth recording "; on the other: "If I do send, I will seem to be magnifying my own ability and pushing myself into notice"; so we hold our peace. But is not the work of the enemy apparent just here? God is neither remote nor withholding experiences of great value from any one of us. It surely is worth recording that Spirit is recognized as consciously, demonstrably omnipresent. Others may send something better or more important to the moment, which will crowd our effort out; but isn't there quite as broad a field for the exercise of humility in willingness to have our communications remain unpublished after the effort to write, as in withholding in the thought that they may not be deemed worthy of publication?
