JOHN JOHNSTONE, HUNTER SQUARE; J. NISBET, & CO.; HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO.; AND R. GROOMBRIDGE, LONDON; MDCCCXL. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Volume which is now presented to our readers is the Second of the present Series, and the Fifth of the entire Work. In reviewing our labours during the past year, we feel that there is abundant reason for gratitude to that Almighty Being whose cause we have been humbly, but, we trust, not altogether unsuccessfully, endeavouring to promote. The tokens of the Divine approbation with which we continue to be favoured are numerous and gratifying; and it is surely to be accounted none of the least obvious and well-marked of these, that, amid the troubles and distractions by which the Christian Church in this country has for some years been agitated, we have still been permitted steadily, and perseveringly to prosecute our great object—the advancement of vital godliness meng all classes of the people. This end we have ever sought to attain; and notwithstanding the adverse influences to which we have been exposed, and the temptations we may have occasionally felt to deviate from the original plan, our uniform desire has hitherto been, and we trust, by Divine grace, will ever continue to be, to avoid all sectarian or polémical discussions, and to exhibit, in all its native simplicity and power, that Truth which alone is able to make wise unto salvation. Our aim has always been, as it still is, to maintain the resolution of the great Apostle of the Gentiles-" To know nothing, save Jesus Christ and him crucified." But however pure and scriptural may be cur motives, and however strenuous and unremitted our efforts, to follow out the original design of THE SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN HERALD, much depends, for its sustained, and enlarged usefulness, upon the countenance, and prayers, and exertions, of the Christian Public: Keeping in view, therefore, the benefits which have already accrued from the wide diffusion of the varied information contained in our little Work, we trust that Christians of every denomination, who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, and desire the advancement of His kingdom, will put forth their most urgent efforts for its increased circulation in the towns, and villages, and rural districts of our land; that, through its instrumentality, many a hungry soul may be fed with the "bread from heaven," and many a thirsty soul may be led to drink of the "water of life freely." |