THE General Baptist Magazine, REPOSITORY, AND MISSIONARY OBSERVER. VOL. III.-NEW SERIES. 1856. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND Co., LEICESTER: WINKS AND SON. PREFACE. THE Editor of this Denominational Magazine begs to present to his numerous readers his best wishes for their prosperity, both temporal and spiritual. To all the agents who assist in the circulation of this work, to the various contributors whose notes of intelligence, whose correspondence, or whose more elaborate essays on doctrinal, experimental, and practical religion enrich the pages of this volume, he is anxious to convey the thanks both of himself and his readers. These kind contributors are earnestly solicited to continue their labours; and all our ministers and friends who have the power to write for the edification and in struction of others, (and the number of these is happily greater now than at any former period,) are invited to unite with them in increasing the value and usefulness of our own periodical. If every church, by its secretary, furnished prompt reports of its more public services and movements, if every minister supplied a brief and characteristic biographical notice of the worthies who are removed by |