has never been realized. Instead of rising in circulation, it has continually fallen, and now the Publisher feels it to be no longer a duty to continue the sacrifice to which he has hitherto subjected himself.

Did the fault lie with us, we would close the work in silence; but feeling assured that such is not the case, we deem it right and most proper to indicate the door at which it must be laid. We have done what we could; and the press universally, and many of our leading ministers and officebearers, have united in testifying again and again to its excellence, and warmly giving it as their opinion that it was the best religious periodical of the day, and eminently fitted to prove useful to all classes. If, therefore, in the face of this evidence as to its worth, it has to be discontinued, because unsupported, its conductors need not scruple to say, that it has been unjustly treated. Yes, duty compels us to affirm, that while some of our ministers and members have nobly countenanced it, the majority have been guilty of apathy, if not something worse, regarding it.

But it is neither our province nor intention to judge or condemn further. The United Presbyterian Church, as a Church, has to give an account to the great Head of all her doings, and the relation she assumed towards the SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN JOURNAL must inevitably be scrutinized. We are content to transfer our cause to that awful and important tribunal. While conscious of many shortcomings and imperfections, we can yet solemnly say, that it has ever been our earnest desire to do our part in the matter.

To the many kind friends who have steadily befriended us --both contributors and readers we have to express our sincere thanks. Our connection with each other, indeed, can never truly and totally cease, for in its influence that must be eternal; but its literal, earthly termination has come, and therefore we must say Farewell!

EDINBURGH, December, 1857.

American Physician, An, 31.

Anecdote of Washington, 108.

Anxious Sinner, The, 224.

Apollyon and his Darts, 234.

Appeal to Youth, 324.

Contempt of Worldly Comforts, 246.
Covetousness, 220.

Cowper, Poetry of, 263.

Cross and the Sepulchre, The, 145.

Cross an Evidence of Divine Justice and

Mercy, The, 349.

Cross of Christ, 136.

Analogy-The Israelites and Believers, 299. Crucifixion between Two Thieves, Our

Apt Comparison, An, 344.

Avoid Contentions, 243.

310, 334.

Lord's, 297, 321.

David's Fall-Its Consequences, 305.
Deadness to the World, 343.

Dead to the World, 246.

Death of an Aged Saint, 196.

Decay in Grace, 200.

Description of the Wicked, 150.
Defamation, 41.

Destruction of the First-Born, 222.

Devising Liberal Things, 194.

Dignity of Man, 291.

Dividing the Spoil, 339.

Divine Blessing, 103.
Divine Character, 46.
Divine Contentment, 79.

Biographical Sketch-Rev. David Wilson, Divine Influence, 92.

Bird in the Egg, The, 40.

Blessings of Believers, 247.

Bought with a Price, 32.

Brevity of Life, 29.

Broken Heart, A, 199.

Duty of the Afflicted, 246.

Dying Advice to Younger Children, 58.

Cabinet, The, 31, 55, 78, 102, 127, 151, 174, Dying Christian, To a, 320.

199, 222, 246, 271, 295, 318, 342, 360.

Grace of God as manifested in Redemption, Motives for Conversion, 339.

How to use the Creatures as Vexing Things, Perpetuity, a Feature of the Gospel, 57, 81.

Picked-up Pearls, 32, 56, 80, 104, 128, 152, Poetry of Cowper, 263.

176, 200, 224, 248, 272, 296, 320, 344,

Piety and Benevolence, 31.

Hymn sung at a Congregational Soiree, 256. Religion, Sources of Corruption in, 105.