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PUBLISHED BY JOHN MASON,

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE OFFICE, 14, CITY-ROAD;
~AND SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

TO CORRESPONDENTS, SUBSCRIBERS, AND READERS.

SEVEN years ago the Conductors of this Magazine expressed their sense of the arduous but welcome duties devolving on them: namely, "to maintain the perfect inspiration of Holy Scripture,-to ascertain and apply its lessons,-to illustrate the truly catholic faith,-to record the holy living and triumphant dying of God's people,-to follow all valuable progress in general literary society, and to combine the current intelligence that seems best fitted to instruct, animate, or admonish the living Church." From that date to the present, such have been their aims; and if they have succeeded in any good degree, either in guarding the external bulwarks of the Truth, or in leading reverent and prepared minds to its inner shrine, to God be the undivided praise.

They have often been cheered with assurances that the successive Numbers of their work rank among those issues of the Press which God honours as the means of edifying believers, fanning the sparks of Christian zeal, and promoting the interests of religion in the world. During the year now far spent, excellent Correspondents have enabled them to put forth many papers of abiding value, especially in the Theological and Miscellaneous sections; and all readers, it is presumed, acknowledge the merit of the Biographical department to be undeclining. To those who have written so well, our best thanks are now offered; and also to our friends and supporters at large. Let the same pens, and many additional ones, be consecrated to the like service in coming months; and let every lover of Sion aid in efforts to increase our circulation. God is vouchsafing to our churches tokens of His favour, and fruits of increase. Is it too much, then, to hope that our own sphere of usefulness will be considerably enlarged with the New Year?

London, November, 1857.

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