BAPTIST MAGAZINE FOR 1834. 78 THE PROFITS ARISING FROM THE SALE OF THIS WORK ARE GIVEN VOL. XXVI. (VOL. IX. THIRD series.) SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE.-Eph. iv. 15. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY GEORGE WIGHTMAN, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1834. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND OR J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY. PREFACE. AMONG the various events which may assist us in taking note of the rapid flight of time, and its accompanying vicissitudes, we are reminded that the Baptist Magazine, in connexion with many interesting and impressive incidents, has now existed more than a quarter of a century. Considering what a concurrence of circumstances is essential to the uninterrupted continuance of a monthly publication, during such a period, chiefly depending, as it has all along done, upon the gratuitous exertions of those whose other avocations have been neither few nor unimportant, that it should be still in a course of encouraging circulation, is certainly an occasion for thankfulness and perseverance. Deeply conscious, as the Editors have uniformly been, how much the energies of the denomination, to whose service this work is appropriated, if so applied, might improve its pages and extend its sale, they have, in these annual addresses, and through other mediums of solicitation, urgently requested such assistance; and they are most happy in having this additional opportunity earnestly and respectfully to renew the invitation, which they sincerely hope may prove more effective than any which has been previously presented. In their labours, during the past year, the Editors have not been ínattentive to any suggestion from their numerous correspondents, of which they could avail themselves for the benefit of their readers. They have felt much indebted for many valuable contributions, which have appeared, in the progress of the volume, and to which may be referred much of that favourable acceptance which it has received. Nor have they been insensible to those expressions of approbation which have been communicated with the evident intention of animating their endea vours. The Editors request permission to state, that they are anxious, they trust commendably, that the relief afforded to the widows of their brethren, should be amply supplied; that their columns should afford an enlarged measure of evangelical instruction and consolation to all who peruse them; and that, thus, their service may, in some degree, be subordinated to the advancement of the Divine glory. |