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THE CHRISTIAN LIFE,

Social and Judividual, in the Present Time.

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BY PETER BAYNE, A.M.

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"The new edition of The Christian Life will be a great improvement on those which have preceded it. It is our sincere belief that, great as has been the success of The Christian Life, it is not at all so well known, or so generally read, as it ought to be. Its reputation in America is far higher than it is here."-Scottish Review for October.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE FIRST EDITION.

"The memoir of Howard is the best we have seen."-North American Review. "We find ourselves in contact with a deep and powerful mind, which brings equally a sound philosophy and an intense religiousness to the exposition of its themes. The author's culture is large and rich; his sympathies are free and genial; his spirit is that of the better order of minds in his own age."-Nonconformist.

"We recommend to our readers Mr. Bayne's volume, as one of the most suggestive and meritorious of its kind which we have for a long time perused. The master idea on which it has been formed is, we deem, wholly original, and we regard the execution of it as not less happy than the conception is good. It is withal an eminently readable volume. Some of the biographies condense in comparatively brief space the thinking of ordinary volumes."-Hugh Miller.

"These three sketches (Foster, Arnold, and Chambers), forming about one-third of the volume, we consider the finest things of the kind that have appeared in the present century."-British Banner.

"The demand for this extraordinary work, commencing before its publication, is still eager and constant. There is but one voice respecting it; men of all denominations agree in pronouncing it one of the most admirable works of the age.”—Circular of Messrs. Gould and Lincoln, who issued the volume in America.

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ESSAYS,

Biographical, Critical, and Miscellaneous.

BY PETER BAYNE, A.M.

They indicate the traits of mind and heart which render The Christian Life' so intensely suggestive and vitalizing, and at the same time display a critical power seldom equalled in comprehensiveness, depth of insight, candid appreciation, and judicial integrity. The author enters at once into the heart of his subject; his standards of judgment are never lost from sight, or warped in their application to the case in hand; and his verdicts appear, not as the result of individual caprice, but as justified by the clear and full statement of the grounds on which they are pronounced."-North American Review.

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Many good and most estimable people will feel as if passing beyond the family circle, with all its hallowed associations and sympathies, when, for Chalmers, Wilberforce, and Howard, and other worthies of the Christian Church, they are introduced to Tennyson, and Mrs. Browning, and Turner, and Ruskin. But let them have patience. The scene and company may have changed, but their companion and guide remains the same. For Mr. Bayne, Christianity is not a thing to be put on merely when speaking about religion: it is—we speak of him as an author, for we have not the pleasure of knowing the man-an inner life diffused through all his life, that is with him in the fields of literature and galleries of art, not less, or at least not less truly, than in the Church."-Ayr Advertiser.

"The volume is one in which, like a mirror, we may contemplate the age wherein we live."-The Leader.

Edinburgh: THOMAS CONSTABLE & Co. London: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & Co. (221)

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Commences January, 1860.

In announcing the close of an old and the beginning of a new life, the proprietors and conductors of this Magazine base their appeal to Christian, and especially to Nonconformist Churches, for an

ENLARGED AND EXTENDED CIRCULATION

on its high reputation for religious usefulness, liberality of thought, and literary ability, which it has attained during the past nine years of its existence-characteristics which have placed it by general acknowledgment in the foremost rank of religious periodical literature. In the ensuing series, which will be under new and efficient editorial management, for which a large accession of writers of eminent ability is secured, these characteristics will be maintained.

The general contents of the Magazine will consist of articles of PRACTICAL and MEDITATIVE RELIGION; of ECCLESIASTICAL and LITERARY HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, and CRITICISM; of TALES and other PAPERS ESPECIALLY ADAPTED to the TASTE and CULTURE of the YOUNGER MEMBERS of the CHRISTIAN FAMILY; of TRANSLATIONS and REPRINTS from the best FOREIGN RELIGIOUS LITERATURE; of a CHRISTIAN COMMON-PLACE BOOK of SELECTED EXTRACTS from OLD and NEW BOOKS; and a General Monthly Review of the Progress of the CHRISTIAN MISSIONS of all DENOMINATIONS, and of RELIGIOUS LITERATURE; two features which will be found together in no other Journal. In a word, the conductors hope to make this Periodical

INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY CHRISTIAN MINISTER AND
EVERY INTELLIGENT CHRISTIAN BELIEVER.

The Magazine will remain unaltered in size and price. It will consist of sixty-four octavo pages: Price Sixpence.

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NATURAL

ECONOMY.

HISTORY,

Amongst the subjects under this head for 1860 are articles on

THE NECESSITY FOR ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
BY CHARLES KNIGHT.

THE PATENT OFFICE, AND PATENT MUSEUM; BY GEORGE DODD.
THE NAVAL FORCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF SCULPTURE; BY JAMES THORNE.

HISTORY OF COMETS; BY JOHN RUSSELL HIND, F.R.A.S.

THE WAR IN ITALY, AND ITS ANTECEDENTS.

THE NATIONAL DEBT; HOW IT GREW.

THE WRECK CHART AND THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

PART II.

THE LEGISLATION, STATISTICS, ARCHITECTURE, AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS, AND CHRONICLE OF 1859.

London: KNIGHT & Co., 90 Fleet Street, and Sold by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom.

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The BRITISH EVANGELIST has now a history of Eighteen months, and, considering the many obstacles to success which meet every new enterprise in religious periodical literature, that history has been of an interesting and encouraging character. The Magazine is gradually gaining "a name and a place" among the still comparatively small number of decidedly Christian monthlies. Whilst the press teems with publi cations of an injurious tendency, and pours forth an abundance of works from which the great facts and truths of the Gospel are wholly excluded-nay, in which Christianity is directly assailed -it has not furnished, in any adequate proportion, antidotes to this moral poison.

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The BRITISH EVANGELIST was among the first to recognise the American Revival as a fact, and to record its wide progress and glorious results. By means of it many Christians in our own land have been led to pray for and expect similar blessings. In some places the church has had to rejoice that the Lord has visited His people, awakening souls, and creating an ardent aspiration after "times of refreshing from His presence." The part which the BRITISH EVANGELIST has been honoured to take in this work is such as should heartily commend it to the prayers and sympathies of all who desire the spread of the Gospel. It is the offspring of revival sentiment, and is to be the instrument for revival work, and the medium of revival intelligence. Its promoters would have it the companion and reporter of the progress of that angel, who, flying in mid heaven, has "the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth." The work is with them truly “a work of faith and a labour of love." They seek not for themselves any pecuniary profit or emolument. In the event of any gain accruing from the publication, they are prepared to devote it to the great work of Christian Evangelization.

Let the friends of Jesus rally around the BRITISH EVANGELIST, and unite in earnest effort and fervent prayer that it may prove more than ever, through the blessing of God, a means of revival to the churches of Christ, and a messenger of salvation to the lost. (Eph. iii. 20, 21.)

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