PUBLISHED BY JOHN MASON, WESLEYAN CONFERENCE OFFICE, 14, CITY-ROAD; THE EDITORS TO THEIR CORRESPONDENTS AND READERS. In preparing the successive Numbers which compose the seventy-fifth Volume of this Magazine, the Editors have striven to maintain and elucidate leading views of truth, to which the Work from the beginning has been sacred. A glance at the "Index" will show, that it has been their duty to look anew into arguments which commanded their earlier acquiescence; and they have risen from such review with fresh and most grateful satisfaction. If papers of a controversial hue seem to have been somewhat numerous, it is on the children of Edom and of Ammon, in these latter days, that the responsibility rests. Among our far more welcome duties have been those of recording holy living and triumphant dying; of tracing the activities of Christian benevolence, at home and abroad, among Gentile nations and the long-disinherited sons of Abraham; of collecting some of the lights of recent biblical study; of glancing at the progress of art, general research, and discovery; of surveying the course of thought pursued in modern schools around us; of testifying, amid the conflict of political parties, and all the stirring events of this age, that JESUS CHRIST is "the PRINCE of the Kings of the earth;" and of urging His disciples, while faithful in the discharge of every civil and social obligation, to "follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD." If these high aims have been in any degree fulfilled, the Conductors of the Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine are unspeakably thankful. "Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto Thy Name give glory, for Thy mercy, and for Thy truth's sake." The incense of praise being first offered to the Father of lights and of blessings, it is a pleasing duty next to thank valued Correspondents, and the whole body of Subscribers. Both these parties have our warm gratitude. Will each and all oblige us by continuing their favours, by promoting the circulation of our next Volume, and (above all) by praying for a richer unction of grace on writers and readers, that God in all things may be glorified? London, November, 1852. |