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6 Advoc. Peace 1 (1845)

handle is hein.journals/wrldaf6 and id is 1 raw text is: ADVOCATE OF PEACE. JANUARY, 1845. COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW VOLUME. We begin -a new volume under auspices more encouraging than we had ventured to expect. The slender income of our Society had compelled us to curtail our expenses by issuing the Advocate only once in two months, though we did this partly for the purpose of having the volume begin with the opening of the :year ; but, deeming it very desirable to keep the subject more constantly before the public, and finding a strong and urgent demand for more frequent issues, we resolved on trying our present plan as the most that we could safely attempt. We have now completed a volume in two years ; and the experiment, though not so successful as it would have been with more time to spend in editing it, and -more coadjutors to extend its circulation, has still brought before the community a much larger amount of information than in any two preceding years. We frankly confess, however, that the Advocate in its present form is not, and cannot be, such a periodical as our cause deserves ; but it is the best that our meagre resources will sustain, or allow us in prudence to attempt. We have long been desirous of having in this enterprise, two periodicals for different classes of readers-a large, able, elegant quarterly for the first minds. in the community ; and a weekly paper for the million, with its facts and anecdotes, its brief, racy articles, and a prompt improve- ment of passing events for the furtherance of our cause. It would be much easier to furnish the matter requisite for both of these, than to combine, as we have attempted, enough to satisfy, in a moderate degree, such a variety, if not direct contrariety of tastes as we find among even our good friends. We have often been amused with this discrepancy of predilections. An article which delights one man, is frequently regarded by another with indifference, if not positive dislike. One reader-insists on discussion ; while another is impatient to hear from agents, auxiliaries or correspondents, what is done for the cause, its fdrmal operations. One wants long, able articles; another, short qnd pithy ones. One is eager for anecdotes, another for statistics, and a third for philosophical or scriptural argument. One wishes to hear more about the evils of war, another mainly about the possibility and the means of its abolition, another respecting the connexions of peace with the great moral movements of the day, while a fourth would fain have us harp incessantl ,on the utter contrariety of all war to the spirit and precepts of the gospel. Demands so inconsistent with themselves, it is of course vain to think of satisfying in any one publication ; but we' VOL. VI.-No. 1.-MONTHLY. 1

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