F. Whitfield, and J. Wilkinson; Messrs. G. B. Chaloner, Sydney Hall, Samuel Hanson, W. Howell, Samuel Sampson, J. G. Sparkes, &c., &c. The names of the dear Christian friends who principally helped forward the publication of our Testimony with their substance we are not at liberty to make known. Our gratitude towards those fellow-labourers is not, however, the less genuine. It is the more profound because it is buried in our heart of hearts, and finds vent only in our fervent prayer, in their behalf, to our Father in Heaven, to whom our every inmost thought is patent and open. LITTLE LINFOrd Vicarage, NEWPORT PAGNELL, BUCKS. An Encyclopædia for the Bible and Talmud Oriental Records, Monumental and Historical The Books of the New Testament translated from the Greek Language into the 528 The History, Art, and Palæography of the Manuscript styled the Utrecht On Job xix. 25-27, Amos ix. 12 On Communion in Scripture Study. On the Great Pyramid, the Grand Gallery, Great Step and Ramp-holes “I SHALL BE SATISFIED, ON AWAKING, WITH THY LIKENESS." No. 1.] JANUARY, 1877. Psalm xvii. 15. [NEW SERIES. TO THE READERS OF THE NEW SERIES. WITH sincere gratitude to Him from whose bountiful hands we have received countless mercies-mercies in sickness and in health, in sorrow and in joy, in despondency and in confidence, in exigency and in affluence-do we resume the work of faith and labour of love which He, the God of Israel, by many a gracious token, has evidently committed to us. Our readers are aware that after four years of incessant literary toil, and pecuniary expenditure far beyond our power, we began to feel imperatively called upon to take rest for a time, that we might recruit our health, energies, &c., whilst in recess. The Magazine was therefore put in abeyance, and lay dormant during the year which has now closed upon us. Many were the meditations and searchings of heart which daily occupied our thoughts during the former months of the year just passed. It was often an anxious problem-sought to be solved by prayerful contemplation—whether THE HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS AND PROPHETIC INVESTIGATOR was destined to resume bearing the testimony, which it was privileged to do so effectively-notwithstanding certain admitted defects— month by month, for four consecutive years. It was true that the rest and change of work and scene had done much, with God's blessing, towards renewing our health and energies. As far as those requirements were concerned, we were ready and willing to resume the work at any time these six months; but B there was another important desideratum. To be able to carry on the work without a repetition of anxiety about pecuniary losses, we felt that we must be backed by a RESERVE FUND, to meet the expenses incidental to so important a publication. This consideration baffled us for some time in our attempts to arrive at a solution to the engrossing problem; the missing link could not be dispensed with. The missing link was, however, supplied by a Hand which holds the hearts of His people, and the problem was thus solved by divine WISDOM. For the last six months, numbers of letters from our former subscribers and well-wishers began to remind us of the vast amount of important good which our Magazine was the means of effecting during the years of its activity. Many a brother in Christ, as well as many an inquiring brother, still halting between the synagogue and the church, began to urge upon us that it was high time that our testimony should once more begin to make itself heard. One dear Christian brothera constant reader of, and the greatest benefactor to, our periodical since its establishment-accompanied his reminder, dated "the 12th of September, 1876," by a promise of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS towards a RESERVE FUND of THREE HUNDRED POUNDS, if TWO HUNDRED POUNDS more were forthcoming from other sources towards the same fund. Encouraged by the generous offer, we ventured to submit the practical suggestion to other friends of our cause and our Magazine. Our appeal has met with favourable responses from several quarters, though not as yet to the required extent. Having informed our practical friend that our success hitherto has only been partial, he at once waived his original condition, and sent us a cheque for the amount of his promised subscription. We cannot, after all these intimations, but consider it our bounden duty to recommence the publication of our humble testimony, in vindication of the Oracles of God, according to their utterances in THE SCRIPTURES OF TRUTH in the Old and New Testaments. This will be evolved by researches and their results in sacred archæology, philology, and Biblical exegesis, bearing on the past, present, and future, of the land and people of Israel. We therefore recommence the NEW SERIES of THE HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS AND PROPHETIC INVESTIGATOR, full |