MISSIONARY INTELLIGEN

NEW SERIES-VOL. XIX WHOLE SERIES-

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EDITED BY JOSEPH F.

1855.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co

LEICESTER :

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WINK

of that history, it is gratitude to God for his great go for so long a period to fulfil our engagements, how own opinion or the judgment of others, they may hav We say 66 a remarkable fact," for we believe it is period one individual has been permitted, alone, and to publish every month, without one failure, a perio which, though of very humble pretensions, has req selection of its articles, and in the preparation of its in And it is not with any desire of claiming distinction o we know not an Editor of any religious periodical wh his work for a longer period.

Moreover, we may venture on permission to stat only publication which the Editor has prepared and I four others, mostly of a juvenile character, but each care and labour, are now, and have been for some tim

But we have said enough, perhaps too much in the ourselves and our services in this department of christ God forgive us if we have! We would give to Him, glory of any good we may have been instrumental in e know; if He had not permitted us we could not have

And now as to the future. Through the good ha feel as fresh and as vigorous for the prosecution of o ever did. When this publication and the Baptist C commenced, there were no such cheap publications am attempt to introduce them was so successful that it at other denominations—of Dr. Campbell, among the I who referred to them pointedly in the spirited addr among that body previously to the appearance of t afterwards issued.

Since then, numerous periodicals, both of a denom character, have appeared, and, as might be expected, to some extent, affected our circulation. But the Ba and it is the desire of its Editor to continue its condu forth at its commencement-as the impartial reporte every section of Evangelical Baptists.

He hopes, therefore, that he may ask for a continua the whole body of baptists, especially of those whos