THE

PROTESTANT MAGAZINE.

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

The Protestant Association.

"Can ye not discern the signs of the times ?"-MATT. xvi. 3.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

FRANCIS BAISLER, 124, OXFORD STREET;

11, EXETER HALL.

M DCCC XLIV.

PREFACE.

IN presenting another completed volume of the "Protestant Magazine" to our friends, we have also to tender our thanks for the measure of support received, and the encouragement given to persevere in the work. To individual feeling alone could we look, either for the one or the other. The very necessity that calls into being an association or a publication bearing as its distinctive title that which once belonged to the nation at large, proclaims that it is no longer generally appropriated; and to those alone can we look for sympathy who lament the changed aspect of public affairs, and long to see again the candle of the Lord shining at our tabernacle as in days past. This number has diminished: Protestantism, no longer nurtured where once its roots were firmly fixed, in the higher places of the land, has become a neglected, an almost forgotten thing by many whose fathers, for generations past, sat under its shadow, and cherished it as their dearest blessing. Still, like Gideon's diminished band, what is lacking in numbers is made good in