FAMILY TREASURY. Edited by THE REV. WILLIAM ARNOT, 79.66 LAWS FROM HEAVEN FOR LIFE ON EARTH," LIFE OF DR. JAMES HAMILTON," ETC. 5. Calvin the Evangelist, and Ber- 282 1. The Civil War: its Causes and 28 A Christian Legislator. By D. Mac- David Brainerd. By the Rev. Duncan Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. By W. Duncan Matheson, the Scottish Evan- gelist. By the Rev. Duncan Mac- Principal Cunningham. By the Rev. 77 298 419 659 FAMILY THE TREASURY. A To Our Readers. S MR. CAMERON, the Originator and Conductor of the Magazine, has seen meet to transfer his services to the Anglo-Saxon Empire rapidly rising in Australia, it has become necessary that another should take his place; but the change of Manager implies no change of management, and our readers will find Mr. Cameron's plans carried out, as far as Conductor and Contributors are able to follow them. The loss of an Editor, who has also been the creator of a journal, cannot be altogether made up; but with the advantage of his example, and with a hearty love of the work, those on whom the charge has devolved begin the task with anxiety indeed, but also with hope and cheerfulness. For those engaged in the Christian ministry, this service presents peculiar attractions. It is a department specifically different, indeed, but generically the same. The ministry of the press and the ministry of the pulpit have the same end in view; but they employ distinct means. If these pages can be charged with vital seeds of truth and righteousness, the press will bear them into regions which a preacher's voice cannot reach, and spread them there. Some sowers (as witness the effigy on the cover of Cornhill) sow alternately with both hands from one seed-bag. Thus the ministry of the Word and Christianized Literature go hand in hand into the field, and work together for the Lord. The times are searching and trying; but all the more interest attaches to every good work to which any disciple has an opportunity of putting his hand. The engine that is kept going has a sweeter life and a longer than the engine that is left idle to rust. No one who has been entrusted with even a single talent needs to hide it in a napkin for lack of a ready investment in our day. The specific character of this Magazine hitherto has been, and henceforth will be, with an aim distinctly Christian and Evangelical, to expatiate over a great variety of subjects, and admit of great diversity in the method of treating them. In our field there is ample room for the apostolic method, of being all things to all men, that we may gain some. Our pages will contain something for the old and something for the young. Grave arguments will alternate with easy narratives. Some papers will be employed in tracking the footsteps of Nature, and some in displaying the wonders of grace; some will exhibit sections of general history, and some will narrate the experience of a particular life. But whatever section of the landscape any Contributor is for the time charged to delineate, it will be his aim to see it as it lies under the light of revealed truth. We shall endeavour to present to our readers a miscellany of literature that is morally pure and esthetically correct. |