General Baptist Magazine Advertising Sheet, February, 1884. IMPORTANT! TO THE MINISTERS AND DEACONS OF CHURCHES, AND SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS. A NEW feature in the Advertising Department of the General Baptist Magazine is now introduced. Opportunity is afforded to every Church and School in the Connexion to advertise their special efforts in the Magazine at a very low price. Under the heading given below, the Printers will insert advertisements of Special Sermons, Tea Meetings, Anniversary and Recognition Services, Lectures, Public Meetings, &c., intended to be held during each ensuing month; so that throughout the Denomination all may know what their brethren are doing. The charge will be Sixpence per line only, each line counting as fourteen words. A specimen of a shilling advertisement is given below. Stamps must in each case accompany the order, which should be sent to WINKS & SON, Publishers, Leicester. WHAT THE CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS ARE DOING. [ARKET HARBOROUGH.-Re-opening Services, March 28, by Dr. Clifford. Sermon MARKET BIBLE AND HYMNAL IN ONE VOLUME. The Trustees of the Hymnal have pleasure in announcing that arrangements have been made whereby they are able to supply copies of the Bible and Hymnal bound together in superior style in one handsome volume. It is the Ruby or Double-Column edition of the Hymnal, with Bible in corresponding type and style. PRICES:-French Morocco, gilt edges, 5s. 6d.; French Morocco, Circuit Binding, ie., with flaps covering the edges of the book, 7s.; English Morocco, gilt edges, 93. 6d.; Ditto, Circuit Binding (bound to order only), 10s. 6d. Young People should order at once, as a Birthday or Wedding present to their friends. Also, the Hymnal may now be had bound in one volume with the "Psalmist Chants and Anthems"-a more complete collection than has been supplied with the Hymnal hitherto. Prices on application to E. MARLBOROUGH & Co., 51, OLD BAILEY, LONDON, Publishers to the Trustees. FOR READING AT BRYANT MOTHERS' MEETINGS. & WINKS & SON, Publishers, Leicester, will send for One Shilling, post free, MAY'S The Christian Mother MATCHES at Home: HER DUTIES & DELIGHTS. BY J. F. WINKS. With an Introduction by THOMAS FOR MOR the PURCHASE and SALE of Productive and Progressive House Property, and IMPROVING the DWELLINGS of the WORKING CLASSES on the selfsupporting principle.-House Property and Investment Company (Limited), 92, Cannon Street, London, E.C. SECOND HALF-MILLION OF CAPITAL. HOUSE PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED), 92, CANNON STREET, LONDON, E.C. Capital paid up £659,039. Total .......... 26,618 Dividends amounting to £192,968 have been paid to Shareholders. Reserve Fund, £43,503. Estates in possession-2,426 Houses and Shops, costing £750,916. Only 1887 Shares of the Seventh Issue remain to be allotted, at £6 per share premium. 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THE General Baptist Magazine. FEBRUARY, 1884. A Bible Tour in the Abruzzi and the Marches. BY REV. N. H. SHAW. AT half-past five o'clock on the morning of the 16th of October, I left home for a tour of nearly a week, among the Apennines and on the Adriatic coast. The object was twofold, viz., to do some missionary work, and carry the New Testament where it had probably never been seen; and at the same time to study the ground in the hope of one day planting a new station or stations. I was joined by Mr. Wall, and we made first for Tivoli. Thence we took the diligence to Avanzano. A ride in a diligence of eleven-and-a-half hours is not exactly desirable generally, but in this case we passed through such magnificent scenery as to render it thoroughly enjoyable. The road winds through most striking gorges; rising to the height of 3400 feet, it has sublime heights above it and deep gloomy ravines beneath, reminding one of some of the best parts of Wales and Scotland. Olive groves and vineyards have taken possession of the hillsides, and almost everywhere there is a careful cultivation which contrasts strangely with the neglected malariabreeding Roman Campagna. The white limestone rocks gleaming in the sunshine, relieved here and there by tracts of ochreous and bright red earth, and clothed, but not hidden, by foliage presenting every variety of autumn tints-flaming red, which suggested "the burning bush," and gold and purple of many shades; the strange but lovely effects of light and shade on the hill tops, especially at sunset--effects witnessed nowhere save among the mountains in southern lands, and occasionally making earth look so ethereal as to help the mind to realize what Spirit may be; the white road winding round and up the hills like a strong cable binding together earth's beauties in one mass, with cities set on hills, at every turn coming into view, and GENERAL BAPTIST MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1884.-VOL. LXXXVI.-N.S. No. 2. |