THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.

MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1876.

ToTthe reader, OF the Fountain.
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1t will be observed by our readers, that we
have lust associated with us the services of oul
son. the Rev. J. T. WARD. This, we are
pleased 10 announce; and we would say to his
friends in the church, where he has ministered
for several years, that this arrangement is moi
designed TO interfere with his official duties
as a minister. We wish not to relard, but ra-
ther to increase, his usefulness; and he has
not obligated himself to remain with us only
SO long as he may feel it his duty, as he does
at the present. We shall give him the charge
of the concern for few months; but we do not
intend 10 withdraw from it our own labors.
So, if our own united efforts, in connection
with those of the numerous friends who have
kindly consented to aid us, can effect It, we
may still promise the public good paper,
which will appear regularly, and give far
exposition of things as they are, and contain
articles on temperance, morals, and literature,
which will, we trust, be highly useful


The assistant editor would desire to express
his consciousness of want of experience in
the business he now enters upon. He begs,
however, the indulgence Of the friends of vir-
tue, and trusts they will do nothing to discour-
age him in an honest attempt, through this
medium, to do good, which is his sole object in
the engagement he has now assumed.


As to the work Of the ministry, he regards
lis claims upon him far superior to all others,
and would not associate himself with this pa
per, did he for a moment suspect it would in
terfere with his calling. He believes, however,
it would not but on the contrary, that he may
thereby rather extend, than lessen his useful.
ness, inasmuch, as he conceves the Coum-
ian Fountain 10 be a devoted advocate of prin-
cples which, if carried out and sustained, will
advance the highest interests Of society.


On account of his feeble health he is, at pre-
sent, without regular appointment from the
conference to which he belongs, and takes the
present position with desire to be usefully
employed, according to his humble ability, as
he conceives every man is bound TO do who
processes christianity. He makes no pledges
as to what he may write for these columns I;
only to say that he will strive to remember the
responsibilities involved in such work, and
keep constant eye to the advancement Of
the welfare of all the readers of the Fountain
of what sect or party-age or condition, soev-
er they may be. He will endeavor to give
becoming difference to those who differ from
him in opinion; and to those whose age and
experience entnle them to the regard and re-
spect of himself and others.


Trusting in GoD, then, expecting the coop
Grafton Of all the virtuous, and wishing to pro-
mote the utmost happiness of all, he enters,
(with due sense, he trusts, of his own weak
ness,) upon the duties Of his present position.


HoURs.-We shall be at the Office of this pa
per, every day from 9 A. NJ, TO i2 M, and
from 3 to 6P. M.


