CHARLES A. MACINTOSH,

PRINTER,

GREAT NEW-STREET, LONDON.

PREFACE.

IT is understood that the whole month of DECEMBER, 1869, will be signalized by UNION FOR PRAYER AMONG PROTESTANT CHRISTIANS all over the world, in private and in public; of prayer for the enlightenment of those who are under Romish influence, as well as of those who make the Word of God of none effect through unbelief.

Nor are these the only subjects of prayer proposed. Those who read and believe the Bible have great need to pray for the outpouring on themselves of the influences of the Holy Ghost, that their own faith may be confirmed by a deeper and more constant study of the Divine Word, and their spirits thereby sanctified, ere they engage in the unavoidable warfare of these days with all that is Babylonish and Antichristian.

We trust that all workers in BIBLE MISSIONS, now widely spread over town and country in England and elsewhere, will unite in these Prayer-meetings with their whole hearts, that so the work of the Lord in their hands may be increased and multiplied. Oh, that the Holy Spirit may overshadow all who shall address and pray, and all who attend the Meetings!

In preparing the "MISSING LINK MAGAZINE" for July, we inserted an article on the marvellous unearthing of the bones of the martyrs in Madrid, while the Spanish Senate was debating on religious liberty; this was followed by particulars con

cerning the Smithfield Martyrs' Memorial Church, erected hard by a certain Pillar Post, situate on similar holy ashes.

Then, coming accidentally in an American paper, we were not surprised to find a striking letter of the celebrated historian of the Reformation, Dr. Merle D'Aubigné, to one of our members of Parliament, inviting England to a Concert of Prayer and Conference in December, and to a great manifestation of Evangelical principles, in the month that Rome would be making a last effort to reforge the chains of Christendom.

On showing this letter to Mr. Kinnaird, to whom it had been addressed, he expressed surprise that it should only have been seen as rebounding across the Atlantic, whence it must have been copied, as it had been at once inserted in the "Record" newspaper, but in which it had apparently failed to create the sensation it deserved. He added that as more than three or four months yet remained before December, it might not now perhaps be too late to reissue the letter diligently in every influential quarter.

How diligent has been that issue, and chiefly by means of Mr. Kinnaird's own family, a paper at page 359 of this volume will show. It is an interesting fact, as evidencing how fast and how far an idea can now travel, as in a short time to make it possible to act together all round the world. Oh! for the day when all this combined action shall be for God and His Word.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

Boys' Sewing Classes in Bible Missions, "I was sick and ye visited me," 321.