PREFACE. The Editor begs leave, in his brief annual preface, to return his thanks to the contributors and patrons of the PRESBYTERIAN MAGAZINE. A more numerous corps of coadjutors will be secured for the year 1857; and the Editor holds forth to the public, with much confidence, the prospects of increased interest and ability in the work. C. VAN RENSSELAER, Editor and Proprietor. PHILADELPHIA, December 22, 1856. C. SHERMAN & SON, PRINTERS, 10 St. James Street. INDEX TO VOLUME VI. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. . Abstinence from Intoxicating Li- Infant Salvation, an argument questioned, 214 plied to the question of, 648 Infidel, brief Plea with, Agricultural Products, Moral Re- 60 Jesus sitting over against the Trea- 599 Judgment of the Great Day, 193 Believer, The, warned and en- Hampshire, 541 Canaanites, God vindicated in their Letters to my Pupils, 604 Coleridge, Hymn before Sunrise, 161 “Congregation,” meaning of the Meditation, 444 Miscellaneous Meditations, 587 Controverted Topics in the Pul. McGill's, Rev. Dr. A. T., Address “My Father's Head," 261 209 Obduracy of Human Heart, 530 5, 305 - Oh, if I could remember that 481, 584 Old Age, its Lessons, Divinity of Christ, Argument for, 495 445 Ebenezer, or our Stone of Help, 630 Paul at Ephesus, . Evening Prayer at Harvard Col- Peace of Europe, . Evils of Religious Declension, 202, 248 Predestination, 304 Revival and Religious Instruction 205 Rice's, Rev. Dr. N. L., Speeches Fight, Faith, and Crown, 310 18 56 Gadarene Demoniac, 151 Safety of the Good, cal order, Saints in Glory speaking to Us, Harvard College, abolishing Eve- ning Prayers, 110 Anecdote of Sunday S. Scholar, · 550 Marshall, Chief Justice, and his Meditations on Sick and Departed, 117 119, 163, 264, 318, 499, 545, 607, 651 Christ welcoming little Children, 221 Parent's Desire for Family, Family Constitution, 651 Government of Children, 651 545 Thoughts on a Child's Death, 168 . 169 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL. . Abington Church, Pa., History of, 80 Muller, Rev. John, Unpublished Alexander, Rev. Dr. A., and News- 124 Newspapers, the Beginning of, Brainerd, John, Sketch of, . 656 Presbyterian Historical Society, 325 Rice, Rev. Dr. B. H., Sketch of, 551 Chester, Rev. F. John, Lines on Rodgers, Rev. Dr. Ebenezer P., Connecticut Churches-are they 464 Scriptures, their Publication en- couraged by Congress, 277 Smith, Rev. Dr. Robert, Sketch of, 612 507 . Adams, N. H., Communion Sab- bath, . Armstrong, on Norfolk Pestilence, 128 92 Armstrong, on the Doctrine of 87 Angus's Bible Hand, 558 176 225 a |