The Relief of the Widows of Gospel Ministers,

OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS.

"Now abideth Faith, Hope, and Charity: these three."- 1 Cor. xiii. 13.

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PREFACE.

No Book can need a Preface less than a Magazine; yet, such is the force of custom, that our Annual Volume would appear imperfect without one.

The Plan and Design of this Miscellany is sufficiently known to the Public:- it is at once to instruct and to entertain by the Memoirs of good men, to excite emulation;-by the Essays, to diffuse evangelical truth and recommend evangelical practice ;- by the Obituaries, to display the goodness of God to dying saints, and the powerful influence of gospel principles; - by the Reviews, we recommend good books, and guard against bad ones; in our Intelligence, foreign and domestic, we record the events the day, as they relate to the kingdom of Christ, and stir up our readers to prayer, to praise, to zeal and good works; — by the Evangelicana, lately introduced, we gather up the fragments of valuable writings; and in the Poetical Department, we preserve from oblivion many a pleasing effort of the Christian Muse: and while these purposes are, we trust, answered to our numerous Readers, many a widowed heart is made to sing for joy by the gratuitous DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROFITS OF THE WORK.

Such is our Plan. As to the execution of it, it becomes us to be silent; nor need we speak. The Circulation of the Work, annually increasing, and far exceeding that of any periodical publication, not religious, sufficiently evinces the public approbation.

C. F. SCHWARTZ,

SIONARY IN INDIA.

pose for this Work, in Germany.)

ian Frederic Schwartz was born the 26th Sonnenburgh, in the New Mark. His George Schwartz; and his mother's maiden he latter, who died during his early childcher death-bed, both to his father and to the attended her, that she had dedicated her son to I exacted a promise from both, that they would at cbstacle in his way, in case he should express a ..ducated for the church.

ge of eight years, Schwartz was sent to the Townwhere he received many good impressions under the sector, Mr. Helm; who, in his instructions in religion, onately recommended prayer to his scholars, and shewed they might, in their own words, lay their concerns before 1. Schwartz relates, in an account written by himself, that often, at that time, went into a solitary place, where he poured at his heart before God; in doing which he felt himself very happy. When he had done any thing amiss at home, he could not be easy till he had earnestly implored pardon of God.

When the above-mentioned rector was advanced to the situation of minister, and his successors paid little attention to the culture of the hearts of the youth under their care, Schwartz became again light-minded. He received confirmation from a clergyman, who was contented if his catechumens could answer his questions; but was not anxious to perceive in them a real change of heart. Although at partaking, for the first time, of the holy communion, Schwartz experienced some serious impressions, they were soon obliterated.

He was afterwards removed to the school at Custrin, where God raised him many benefactors. But as he lodged with light-minded scholars, his heart became more and mere estra from gedi