THE CHRISTIAN OBSERVATORY: Religious and Literary Magazine. A. W. McCLURE, EDITOR. I WILL stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see VOLUME I.....1847. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY J. V. BEANE & CO. NO. 21 CORNHILL. 1847. Malignant Philanthropy, 85, 143, 189 Reformation Reformed, Mann, Hon. Horace Mexican War, 44 425 168 428 30, 528, 529 Republicanism of Christianity, 488 Modern Transcendentalism, Monthly Religious Magazine, Moody Family, Moral Courage, 18 Revivals, 142 Revival Preaching, 142 Rights of Women, 90 192 90 - 479 534 250, 345, 441, 495, 529 Robinson, John Mormon Stock Declining, Neander's Church History, 42 Sabbath School Question Books, 335 Normal School at West Newton, 284 Orthodoxy, Difficulties of 270 Sinai, Slavery, 466 Slaves and the Bible, 335 283 364 93 235 Statistics of Congregationalism, 337 543 Teacher's Institute, 33, 428 570 Tappan's Poems, 190 191 378 Temperance, 72 Legislation, 331 397, 433 Temple's Daily Treasury, 46 156 Thanksgiving, 568 336 Theatricals, 527 48 Transcendentalism, 18 Tyler's Letter to Bushnell, 381 337 Tyler's Tacitus, 429 Ar the very porch of the OBSERVATORY, as we are entering into its labors, we seem to be called upon to make known in advance, so far as it can be done, what the objects and character of the work will be. It is true, that there is a multitude of periodicals in existence. But in this very fact, we see a reason for adding another to the number, to maintain the "balance of power.' That large portion of our people, to whom the great doctrines of salvation are still precious and venerable, feel themselves pressed in, as it were, on every side, by the growing mass of printed matter, which bears offensively upon them. They need something, whereby they may press out again, and bear back the intolerable weight. The OBSERVATORY will stand upon a strong doctrinal basis, with the Bible, square and solid, for its corner-stone. It has been sagely said, in the true spirit of the inductive philosophy, "As in nature, the more you remove yourself from particulars, the greater peril of error do you incur; so, much more in divinity, the more you recede from the Scriptures, by inferences and consequences, the more weak and dilute are your positions. The Scriptures stand in the same relation to the theologian, as the world of matter to the natural philosopher." To the responses of this living oracle, the Word of God, we wish ever to yield * Essay, Biographical and Critical, prefixed to the works of Jeremy Taylor. London edition, 1835.. |