Editorial Difficulties.
By Editor
The London Record, on entering the thirteenth year of its existence, speaks thus: "Few there are who know the difficulties of conducting a public journal, and especially one which desires to act on Christian principles. To speak the truth in love, and yet without fear or favor, to withstand whatever threatens the integrity of God's holy word or the purity of Christ's holy gospel, is no easy task, especially for those who must often write upon the spur of the moment. . . . Readers are offended because some favorite opinion is controverted, or some favored friend is censured; because some lengthy communication is not inserted, or some fond suggestion not adopted; because in one instance we may have been too sharp, or in another too tame; because we have dwelt too much on one topic, or too little on another. There are those who have thought our Protestantism ardent even to exaggeration. There are others who characterize it as "milk and water," and long for their own infusions of what, in the view of sober men, more resembles the too stimulating dew of the mountains."