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THE

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN

MAGAZINE.

NEW SERIES.-VOL. XVIII.

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND CO.

LONDON, HOULSTON AND SONS: GLASGOW, DAVID ROBERTSON.

MDCCCLXXIV.

MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,

PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

PREFACE.

IN closing the year, we have to thank Contributors, who have so ably

and readily given us their assistance, and Clerks of Presbyteries, for

so kindly furnishing information which is of special interest in a Denominational Magazine, and which is not to be found elsewhere. We must also refer, with grateful recognition, to the kindness of friends of departed ministers, whose praise is in all our churches, in placing valuable portions of their MSS. at our disposal.

Our Magazine is identified with a certain system of doctrinal belief and form of ecclesiastical polity. In connection with both of these it has an important work to do. It has to expound and defend the principles of our denominational creed and action. We have many religious periodicals now-a-days, and doubtless some of them are doing good; but the sound which not a few of them give forth is alike uncertain and confounding— the same journal often setting before you High Church and Low Church and Broad Church views in the same issue, and with the same approval. Surely, then, we need journals in which the truths we hold dear will be set forth in a consistent and rightly liberal spirit. The principles of Voluntaryism, which have so long been specially advocated in our pages, are now beginning to be in the ascendant; but a great work is still before us in this connection, and, as in the past, all well-considered movements for the separation of Church and State will receive our support.

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