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British Folly; or, the Patchwork Institutions of Great Britain. With some thoughts suggested by the Great Fancy Fair at Liverpool. Addressed to Thinking People. By a Clergyman of the Church of England. London: Wertheim and Macintosh, 24, Paternoster Row. Pp. 20. A TEMPERANCE Tract written in a temperate tone. The author has started upon the principle that "prevention is better than cure." has brought forward a multitude of facts illustrative of the demoralizing and disastrous consequences of intoxicating drinks. He has not, however, as is too commonly the case, substituted temperance for godliness, or made a teetotal pledge little less than a passport to heaven.

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A Letter on Christian Baptism, with the History of Water Baptism, to the Honourable Baptist W. Noel. By KESEPH. Pp. 32. London : H. G. Collins, 22, Paternoster Row.

A CLEAR and forcibly-written Tract, written, says the author, "to stir up the mind to the important inquiry, whether Christians' circumcised without hands,' are not baptized without water?" We cheerfully recommend it to the attention and unprejudiced perusal of our readers.

A Million of Facts of correct Data, and Elementary Constants, in the entire Circle of the Sciences, and on all subjects of speculation and practice. By Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS. London: Darton and Co., Holborn Hill. A MOST valuable Encyclopædia in miniature.

Tracts for Town and Country. London: Palmer, 117, Goswell Street. THERE is a simplicity, a sweetness, and a savour, about these Tracts, that we greatly admire. We hope they will meet with encouragement.

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AN ACROSTIC ON THE DEATH OF MR. THOMAS REED, MINISTER OF CHRIST'S GOSPEL.

THOMAS! my servant, thou must dwell with me.
H ail! blessed Master, Lo! I come to thee;
Oh! let me see thy hands, thy feet and side,
My Lord! my God! my Jesus, crucified!
A nd well I know that thou wilt give me room,
S afely to rest within thy hallow'd tomb.
Resurgam! glorious word, my spirit charms,
E mblazon'd on Salvation's city arms,
Enough! my soul, then flee away with speed,
Depart in peace, from this poor "bruised Reed."

JAMES STONE.

A WORD FOR THE MAGAZINE.

THE close of another Volume calls for a word on behalf of the Magazine. In comparing this with the preceding years, we have reason thankfully to acknowledge that it has stood its ground. We are not aware of any decrease in the circulation. But, on contrasting its expenses with other years, it behoves us to say, that they have most seriously increased. The demand has not, as we had anticipated it would have done, met the additional outlay: and, consequently, we are very much the losers by the experiment.

Our wish and endeavour was to place before our readers Portraits of Ministers who preached the same truths as the Magazine advocates. We thought such, in this our dark day, would have been acceptable, and that at least the additional expense would have been met by an additional sale, more especially as we did not lessen the amount of letter-press. But we have been disappointed. And having now several other Portraits of Gospel Preachers in hand, which will necessarily entail upon us much additional expense, our readers will, we trust, suffer us to ask their continued interest and co-operation.

If the Magazine is worthy of support; if it be a messenger of mercyof good and glorious tidings to a poor bankrupt race-if many a soul has found it a channel of communion; then let such show their esteem by seeking to strengthen the weak hands of its ofttimes weary Editor; not weary through any decrease of interest in the work, but through the pressure which his momentous position, in these days of rebuke and blasphemy, entails.

The amount of anxiety which he encounters in connexion with this Magazine, is known only to God and his own soul. It gives him unceasing travail. Never a day-and very seldom even a single hourpasses, without the Magazine and its readers occupying a goodly portion of his thoughts. Case after case-one soul after another-comes mentally before him, diverting his mind from every other thought or consideration, under the all-absorbing pressure that God would graciously shine forth in behalf of such tried and tempted individuals; and these unseen, and, in all probability, unknown, in the flesh.

These, dear readers, are among the secrets of Editorship-an occupation of comparatively little care, and an easy post to fill, in the estimation of many. But if the heart, as well as the head, is occupied, we see not how it can be an office other than of great responsibility. Permit us, then, dear readers, in conclusion, to ask that the pressure of the pecuniary interests of the Magazine may as much as possible be lessened by your cordial endeavour to support it. Have you not friends to whom you can recommend it? poor neighbours to whom you can give it? and may not the facility which the stamped edition now affords of sending it free through the post, suggest the idea of a year's subscription of 6s. 6d., that the Printer may regularly supply it to some one or other of your distant and poorer friends? We were much struck recently with a remark accompanying one of these subscriptions, from a person who could very ill afford it. He was leaving an aged widowed Mother, and about to sail for a foreign land. "The best present that I think I can make her," said he, "is a year's Numbers of the GOSPEL MAGAZINE." Reader, if this be an example worthy of imitation, "Go thou and do likewise." THE EDITOR.

Bonmahon, Nov. 22, 1849.

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"COMFORT YE, COMFORT YE, MY PEOPLE, SAITH YOUR GOD."

"ENDEAVOURING TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE."

"JESUS CHRIST, THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER. WHOM TO KNOW IS LIFE ETERNAL."

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