... 571 93 334 237 AB 140 571 190 43 533 130 531 573 90 72 Memoranda (continued) Page - A Christian Woman ... ... ... 572 A Letter to the Rev. J. Baldwin Brown on the Sacrificial Subs. titution of the Lord Jesus Christ 572 Angel's Song ... ... ... ... 429 Animal Life... ... ... ... ... 130 Ante-Nicene Library ... ... 44, 381 Antidote against the Unscriptural and Unscientific Tendency of Modern Geology ... ... Aphorisms from the Poets... Ashcliffe Hall ... ... ... Atonement, The ... Augustine's City of God ... 477 · Baptist Handbook -History ... ... 43 ... Baptists in Error ... ... 572 Beeton's Bible Dictionary... 131 Bible Lore ... ... Bible Student ... 187 ... ... Biblical Treasury 237 Blanche Gamona... ... 334 Breaking the Rules .... 323 189 Buying and Pelling, and Getting Gain ... ... Byepaths of Baptist History 531 Child and the Book ... . 187 Child's Companion ... ... Christian Age ... ... ... · Economy ... ... ... 476 Psalmist ... ... ... 430 Stewardship .. Circular Letter, Eternal Punish- ment... ... ... ........, ... 476 Library ... ... ... ... ... 92 489 Come to Jesus ... ... ... ... 5 2 Counsels to Sunday-school Teachers 332 355 Cousin Mabel's Experiences ... 237 521 Crisis of the Church of the World 333 Dan Taylor ... ... ... ... ... Day of Bereavement ... ... ... Delitzsch on the Psalms ... ... Glass ... ... ... ... Divine Leadings ... ... ... Dogs and their Doings ... ... Dr. T. Goodwin's Divinity ... 235 Duncan Matheson 286 Eternal Life set forth ... ... 379 - - Suffering of the Wicked 332 Eva and Bertie ; a Tale for Little Children ... ... ... ... ... 573 Evangelist's Hymn Book ... ... 380 Evidences of Christianity ... Ezekiel, and other Poems ... 237 Fables, Grave and Gay 427 572 189 256 185 ... 44 398 428 Page 237 . 90 ... 284 ... 531 Reviews (continued) Page , Reviews (continued)- 285 332 Measure of Faith ... ... ... Melodia Divina ... ... ... ... 45 Memoir of Jane Walker ...... 476 *** Memorial of Albert Barnes ... 380 - - Dr. Mackintosh ... 186 Monthly Diaries 90 Morning and Evening Sacrifice 185 My Summer in a Garden ... ... 429 Nannette Dampier ... ... ... 90 New World ... ... ... ... 381 Old Jonathan ... ... ... Old Merry's Annual ... ... Travels ... .. 332 Ward Beecher ... ... ... 131 Testament ... * 573 Original Fables ... ... ... ... 46 -- Sin ... ... ... ... 236 Quiet Hourg ... ... ... ... 379 Pearl of Story Books ... ... ... 379 Philip Phillips' Singing Annual for Sunday Schools ... ... ... 572 Picture Gallery of the Nations... 44 Pictures and Stories of Natural History .. ... ... ... ... 91 331 Pilgrim's Progress ... ... ... 285 Power in Weakness ... ... ... 132 Practical Moral Lesson-book ... 236 Prayer for a Month ... ... ... 575 Priestcraft ... ... ... ... . 429 Problem of Evil ... ... ... ... 379 Rain Upon the Mown Grass ... Rare Jewels ... ... ... ... 284 Reflections for the Times ... ... 477 Rills from the Fountain of Life 380 - Rome and the Council ... ... 44 Royal Wedding, The... ... ... 188 Scriptural Baptism ... ... ... 285 Scripture Object Lessons ... ... Texts ... ... ... ... ... 43 Short Tales for Young Readers... 331 Sketches in Water Colours ... 188 Social Evil .. ... ... ... ... 284 Soul and its difficulties ..... 430 91 - the Work of Demons 572 St. Paul ... ... ... ... ... 132 Stolen Child, The ... ... ... 185 - Stone Witnesses ... 186 130 91 529 43 289 380 251 442 672 575 Reviews (continued) Page of the Olden Time ... ... 189 - Young Man in the Battle of Life 131 Story of a Working Man's Life 285 Rogers, George-Story of Our Doll ... ... ... 130 Are Buildings Churches ? ... 229 546 330 ** Southwark, Nonconformist Worthies - The Child's Own Magazine ... 573 of Old ... ... ... ... ... 306 The City Temple... ... ... ... 575 | Speci ... 575 | Special Services at the Tabernacle, 135, 179 - The Claims of China ... ... ... 572 Spiritual Worship and Holy Places ... 64 The Creation ... .. ... ... 381 Spurgeon, C. H.- A Discourse upon Matt. xiv. 16 49 “ The Gates Ajar," Examined ... 428 » John xvi. 31 32 dvanced Thinkers ... ... ... 495 · The Name above every Name ... 572 Pilly Bray, the Bible Christian 537 The Scripture Pocket Book ... Exposition of the Psalms, 28, 123, 371, 421 Pocket Book ... ... ... .. 573 Great Mercies ... ... ... ... 323 The Wood Carver: ... ... ... 573 Happy Beggar, The, ... ... 5 The Watchman Tracts ... ... 572 Ministry needed by the Churches, - The Year before the Battle ... 215 Use the Pen ... .. ctor Comes ... ... 188 Want of Naturalness in PreachTitle-Deeds of the Church ing ... ... ... ... ... ... 398 England ... ... ... ... St. Giles, The Poor of, ... ... ... 415 Toy Books ... ... ... ... Sunday School Teaching ... ... 104, 97 58 Watching at the Gates ... | Teach, Apt to ... ... ... ... ... 359 Wesleyan Missions ... ... 133 To You... . What shall we say about the Waiting for the Verdict, the Acquittal Waste ... ... ... ... " "" 130 Dealers, The | Whitecross Street Dealers, The ... Will a Man Rob God? ... 572 Work among the Lost... Within the Gates ... ... ... 532 Work in the Olden Time ... ... ... Words of Consolation ... ... 427 Workers Spasmodic ... ... ... ... .. 185 187 Gen, i. 7 ... 399 Advanced Thin 573 573 The :: :: ... 355 " . 427 Till the Doctor Com 104. 359 571 71 VERY little boy was taken to the Tabernacle the other Sabbath, for the first time in his life. There he went through the experience which Mr. Millais has so well depicted in his well-known painting, “My First Sermon.” Turning to his nurse he enquired in childish accents, “Is Mr. Spurgeon talling to me?” Bless the young heart, our prayer is that very speedily the Lord may speak to him through the preacher; and meanwhile we only wish that all our hearers and readers would ask themselves the same weighty question. When a passenger arrives at the Great Western terminus, at Paddington, he hastens to the long counter divided into portions of the alphabet from A to Z, he looks for his own initial, and beneath that sign he watches for his own personal luggage. What matters it to K whether Q has a huge tin box, or B a horsehair trunk, or W a warranted solid leather portmanteau ? The first concern of K is to search out the treasures which he can claim as his own. In common life there is no need to urge this : Number One usually secures its just share of attention, and a little more. Is it not strange that when we enter upon higher realms, where weightier matters are concerned, we find men avoiding the personal application of truth, as if they thought it to be a shell which would blow them to atoms by its bursting, or a boa constrictor which would crush them in its folds? We have heard of a writer who was so egotistical, that when he wrote his own life the pronoun “I” occurred so often in it, that the printer was obliged to borrow I's from his brother printer, as his “I's” had run out. The vice is very contemptible, but might it not prove the basis of a virtue? Might we not inculcate the exchange of the nominative for the accusative, and urge persons to be ego-istical (would that word do ?) so far as to take home to themselves every practical lesson in book, sermon, or providence ? The proud conviction that we are above needing instruction, is one principal reason why we profit so little from the abundant means provided for our spiritual benefit. There is no teaching those who are beyond the need of learning. A certain worthy of our acquaintance, being out of a situation, made application to a friend to recommend him to a place, and remarked, that he would prefer a somewhat superior position, “ for you know, Tomkins," said he, “I am not a fool, and I ain't ignorant." We would not insinuate that the brother was mistaken in his own estimate, but the remark might possibly excite suspicion, for the case is similar to that of a timid pedestrian at night alone, hurrying along a lonesome lane, when a gentleman comes out of the hedge just at the turning by Deadman's Corner, and accosts him in the following re-assuring language, “I ain't a garrotter, and I never crack a fellow's head with this here life-preserver.” The outspoken self-assertion of the brother quoted above, is but the expression of the thought of most, if not all of us. “I am not a fool, and I ain't ignorant,” is the almost universal self-compliment, which is never out of season; and this is the great barrier to our benefiting by good advice, which we suppose to be directed to the foolish and ignorant world in general, but not to our elevated selves. The poet did not say, but we will say it for him, “All men think all men faulty but themselves.” It would be a great gain to us all, if we had those elegant quizzing glasses of ours silvered at the back, so that the next time we stick them in our eyes, in all the foppery of our conceit, we may be edified, and, let us hope, humbled, by seeing ourselves. Gentle reader, during the year of grace, 1871, we shall hope to make our magazine the vehicle of address to persons unconverted and unbeliering. If you are in such a case, do not shelve the subject, but consider that we are writing especially to you. We were in a sick room the other day, and the surgeon, with carefully soft whisper, told us something painful in reference to the case. We caught the glance of the •patient, and translated it in a moment, that keen eye said, “You are whispering about me, and my case is a very bad one, pray tell me what will come of it!" It would be well for you, reader, if you were equally sensitive; there are threatenings of fearful import in the word of God; do you never in your heart remember that these speak of you? Bare your bosom to the arrows of the gospel, for those whom these shafts shall kill shall graciously be made alive again. Invite the operation of searching truths, which divide the joints and marrow, for their keen edge will destroy nothing but that which would destroy you. Christian reader, we shall continue by God's help to stir you up both by examples and precepts to holy diligence in your Lord's service. Be so good as to accept each monthly magazine as a letter under our hand and seal directed to yourself, reminding you of the claims of Jesus upon your personal effort. It is said that charity nowadays may be described thus: A sees B in want, and is so very kind as to try to get C to help him. We have daily abundant proof that this is true. Half the world comes to the Tabernacle minister for help, and three-fourths of |