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THE

GENERAL BAPTIST

REPOSITORY,

AND

MISSIONARY OBSERVER.

VOL. VIII.-NEW SERIES.

1846.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, GILBERT, & PIPER,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

W. H. BURTON, PRINTER,

LEICESTER.

PREFACE.

THE present age has been not unaptly designated an age of movement. Various elements, social, political, commercial, and religious, are in such active operation, as to portend that very considerable changes are at hand. While the christian, as a patriot and a philanthropist, cannot be uninterested in every movement that tends to the amelioration of the evils which afflict society, or to the advancement of men in their intellectual or social condition, he still feels that 'the truth as it is in Jesus' constitutes the grand source of true moral elevation, and is the only means by which the soul can be brought back to God, the affections elevated to heaven, and the hopes fixed on immortality and life. It is this, and this alone, which is an unfailing basis of support amid the trials and changes of life, and when we come within the precincts of the world to come. Hence it is well for him, amid the unavoidable turmoil of this life, frequently to retire within himself, and, aided by the light of the inspired oracles, to commune with his own heart,' to examine himself whether he be in the faith,' and to meditate and lift up his heart to the God of all grace,' that he may be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, and may 'grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.'

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Among other means which are useful in promoting this end, is a religious and denominational periodical. It is there we peruse the life and death of distinguished persons who were known to us, whose faith we are thus encouraged to follow; that we read of many who have died 'triumphing in

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