The requirements of family reading will be carefully studied, and in order to meet them we propose to devote two or three pages monthly to the young. In providing for Christian families we shall be aided by the ladies to whom we are indebted for the papers on "The Wife of Philip Melancthon," and on "Lord Haddo,” and by the accomplished author of the recently-published "Sermons from the Studio." Readers, whose tastes or whose incessant occupations prevent their perusal of longer articles, will find provision made for them in two or three pages of "Golden Words for Busy People," carefully selected from authors, old and new. By an arrangement with the Committees of the Home Missionary Society, the Colonial Missionary Society, and the Irish Evangelical Society, it is intended that each number shall contain a chronicle of four pages to report in succession the operations of these institutions; and it is hoped, that this arrangement will at once benefit our British Missions, and add to the value and interest of the "CHRISTIAN WITNESS." Thus using our best endeavours to make our "Threepenny" Monthly a means of increased spiritual good to our Churches, we solicit the co-operation of all our readers to promote our circulation. By their personal influence that circulation might speedily be doubled; and, in this age of intense competition, nothing but personal influence can secure a fair hearing to a Denominational Magazine. The Lord give our readers and ourselves grace to be faithful to His Truth and Kingdom in the world! JOHN KENNEDY. STEPNEY, November 26th, 1867. CONTENTS. Anniversaries, Our, 308 Archbishops, Two of the Tenth Century, 108, 170 A Voice from China to the Young Men of Baines, Mr. Edward, M.P., on National Baptized for the Dead, 529. Bath, Early History of Nonconformity in, Bass Rock, The, and its Memories, 215, 247 Beecher, Rev. E., D.D., On the First Prin- ciples of Congregationalism, 81 Bealby, Rev. W., The Old Inn, 113 Birmingham Congregationalism, 128 Biographical Notes on Money Giving, 315 Blackie, J. S., On the Two Margarets, 221 Book Notices, 43, 91, 143, 186, 234, 284, 331, 379, 429, 475, 525, 563 Rev. W., M.A., Trust and Work, 6 Century, A Contrast between the Fifteenth Chapter of Biblical Notes, 375 Character and Creed, 97 Work amongst the Gipsies, 19 Christian's, The, Retrospect, 42 Christmas Day and Ritualism, 120 Churches, Common Prayer for Evangeli- The Sect, and the Amusements Hallett, Rev. J., Cato Street Conspiracy, 61 Heaven, Earth Reproduced in, 193 Hebditch, Rev. S., How the Four wrote of Hymnists, French and Early English, 259 Incarnation, The Probability of the, 540 Inn, The Old, and its Associations, 113 Jews, The, Sabbath in London, 254 Liturgy, Should we have one? 150 Notes, A Chapter of Biblical, 375 Obituary, Rev. Dr. Campbell, 232 Herbert Mends Gibson, Esq.,423 Mrs. Lydia Hawkins Pitman, 555 Our Relation to other Communities, and Organ, The Question of, in Scotland, 461 Poetry, By Professor Upham, 67 Poetry-A Christmas Carol, 546. Poetry-The Eve of the Nativity, 545 Pictures, Two, London and Paris, 373 Prayer and Prayer Meetings, 89, 134 329 Praise, Thoughts on the Service of, 145 Primitive Condition of Mankind, 500 Principles of Congregationalism, 81 Property, Our Lord's Teaching respect- Public Worship, Recent Publications on, Races, The Two, in the One Church, 367 Retrospect, The Christian's, 42 Ritualism, The Missionary Aspect of, 14 -Rev. Baldwin Brown, B.A., and late Rev. B. Kent, On, 357 Sect Churches, The, and the Amusements Spiritual Growth, Thoughts on, 1 aries, 410 Sultans, The, and Western Europe, 392 Tiler, Rev. W., On Glenorchy Chapel, 457 Union, The, Question in Scotland, 369 Viney, Rev. J., Obituary of late Rev. J. L. Poore, 452 Wesley, How Samuel and Susanna An- Western Europe and the Sultans, 392 |