The character of this work in the Edinburgh Christian Instructor, and the Review of it in the Edinburgh Magazine, will be found in No. IV. of the Appendix. The new matter in this Edition, beyond what was in the first, is in Nos. I. II. and III. of the Appendix, amounting to 23 pages. No. II. contains an additional argument, fully stated and illustrated.-Editor. FATHER'S GIFT TO HIS CHILDREN: BEING A SHORT VIEW OF THE EVIDENCES of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION. ADAPTED TO THE UNDERSTANDINGS OF BY A LAYMAN. R.Ainslie. "Be ready always to give an answer to every Second Edition. J 2342 EDINBURGH: Printed by Balfour & Clarke, AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS ON occasion of the publication of this New Edition of my Treatise upon the Evidences of Christianity, adapted to the understandings of the young, I have wished to inscribe it to some one; and holding a dedication as a token of gratitude and respect, none has appeared to me, so proper, under whose patronage to endeavour to place it, as your Ladyship, for reasons, both of a particular and general nature. My inducements of the first description, are the politeness I have A ever received from you and Lord Moray-the uniform attention and kindness you have shewn to my daughters, to whom the manuscript of this my work was presented the recollection of the friendship in which I had the happiness to live with your father, the late Sir Philip Ainslie-his steady confidence in me as a professional man; and the continuance of that confidence and regard from his sons. Your Ladyship occurred to my mind, as a patroness also, from the remembrance, that, twelve years ago you perused this Essay in writing.and that, even in its then imperfect state, it, to my great satisfaction; met with your approba tion. Among the more general reasons for looking towards you, 1 might allude to elevated rank, ex |