BAPTIST MAGAZINE FOR 1858. THE PROFITS ARISING FROM THE SALE OF THIS WORK ARE GIVEN TO THE WIDOWS OF BAPTIST MINISTERS, AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CONTRIBUTORS. VOLUME L. (SERIES V.-VOL. II.) "Speaking the truth in love."-EPHESIANS iv. 15. B LONDON: PEWTRESS & CO., 4, AVE MARIA LANE; PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLVIII. PREFACE. THE completion of another volume renders it necessary to comply with the usual form of writing a few lines of Preface. It is not, however, as a mere form that the Editor returns his very sincere and hearty thanks to his brethren and fathers in the ministry, whose kind co-operation and ready aid have helped to lighten his labours, and render them to so large a degree successful. To them-to friends who have spoken kindly and approvingly of the Magazine under its present management-and to the readers who have so considerately overlooked the defects and imperfections of which no one has been more fully aware than himself— the Editor desires to tender his grateful acknowledgments. His earnest desire is to carry out yet more fully the motto of the Magazine, "Speaking the truth in love." To this end he earnestly solicits the continued and increased help of the denomination whose monthly organ this still aspires to be. Frome, December, 1858. SAM MANNING. |