Infant System.. Ditto.. (continued) 621 | Parental Partiality, its injurious effects 430 Introductory Observations.. 1 29 Jude's (St.) Church, Liverpool.... 246 By-gone Hours 157 Cæsar at Pharsalia . 377 L Child's Hymn for Saturday Night.. 603 Childhood's Sports. 187 No. II.... 530 Christian's Warfare and Tri- PREFACE. ONE YEAR having now elapsed since the establishment of this periodical publication, it becomes our pleasant duty-while we offer our grateful acknowledgments to the original supporters of THE CHRISTIAN MOTHER'S MAGAZINE,-to state, that the degree of favour with which the work has been received by the public at large, is such as cannot but excite and encourage us to use our utmost exertions to render it, in future, still more worthy of the approbation by which it has already been distinguished. In the prosecution of this purpose, EXCELLENCE, in every department of the Magazine, will be our constant object. In papers treating of religious subjects, it will be in future, as it has been hitherto, our main endeavour to exhibit and to recommend the FUNDAMENTAL AND DISTINGUISHING TRUTHS OF CHRISTIANITY, "in all their healing influence," rather than to enter needlessly into the various religious controversies of the day and, with regard to science and general literature, while we exert ourselves to lay before our readers an abundant variety of articles contributed by writers eminent for learning or talent, and to provide for the gratification of our younger friends, by presenting them, as occasion may arise, with matter which may be amusing as well as instructive, CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES Will, as heretofore, be constantly kept in view. To this general statement of our views and purposes as it respects the future conduct of this publication, we will only add the expression of our earnest hope, that THE CHRISTIAN MOTHER'S MAGAZINE, while it continues to be useful and acceptable to parents, as a work embodying the principles of Christian education, and calculated, by the nature and variety of its contents, for family reading, may, at the same time, by the Divine blessing-without which the best concerted and most promising designs must ultimately fail-be rendered instrumental in the spreading and enforcing of those GREAT TRUTHS OF REVELATION, upon a right understanding and application of which, the eternal salvation of every child of Adam must depend. M. M. December, 1844, |