TO OUR READERS. In closing our thirty-eighth volume we feel a thankful pleasure in looking back to the preface of the first, and using the language of our beloved. brother who originated, and long ably conducted, the Magazine : "In bringing to a close the first volume of the GOSPEL HERALD, or Poor Christian's Magazine, we feel deeply sensible of our obligations to our covenant God; and also to our friends and fellow-servants in the kingdom of our dear Lord. "When we review our motives which induced us to put our hand to this Gospel plough, we derive an inward support, believing that they arose from the finger of God. "The principles on which we determined our work should find its way among the Churches (and from which we hope never to swerve), in many places have given great offence. These are some of the awful signs of the times, and proclaim aloud the necessity of good men, who have any veneration for the truth left, to unite in every possible means to disseminate the glorious Gospel." We rejoice that our judgment of divine truth is in no essential point diverse from those principles, for the advocacy of which the work was first |
