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THE

CHRISTIAN OBSERVATORY:

A

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
what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.-Hab. ii. 1.

VOLUME I.....1847.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY J. V. BEANE & CO.

NO. 21 CORNHILL.

1847.

CP. 26125

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THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

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Massachusetts Convention,
Mathews, Marmaduke
Military Servitude,

Mexican War,

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30, 528, 529 Republicanism of Christianity, 488
18 Revivals,

Modern Transcendentalism,

Monthly Religious Magazine,

Moody Family,

Moral Courage,

142 Revival Preaching,

142 Rights of Women,
Rival Grammars,

250, 345, 441, 495, 529 Robinson, John

Mormon Stock Declining,

Neander's Church History,
New Year,

239 Rough Plank Churches,

334 Sabbath,

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42 Sabbath School Question Books, 335

Normal School at West Newton, 284
Noyes, Prof., charged with Blas-
phemy,

Orthodoxy, Difficulties of

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School Government,

Sensitive Christians,

270

Sinai,

Slavery,

466 Slaves and the Bible,

335

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Statistics of Congregationalism, 337
557 Swedenborgianism,

397, 433 Temple's Daily Treasury,

Progress and Prospects of Con-
gregationalism,

Prosperous Christians,
Puritan Stock,

Puritanism in the Episcopal
Church,

Puseyism,

Views of the Bible,

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Legislation,

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336 Theatricals,

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Van Lennep, Mrs. M. E.,
Viennese Children,
Vultures Changed to Doves,

War with Mexico,
33 Wilbur's Reference Bible,
80 Williams, Roger
Witchcraft,

85 Worcester's Dictionary.

180

221, 274 Year, New

230

66 Past

66 Coming

Typee, a Peep at Polynesia,
Bushnell's Christian Nurture, 323
Argument for Chris-

tian Nurture,
Cobb's Compend of Divinity,

Young American's Magazine,

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420 Zion,

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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.

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