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It is with much regret we announce, that the publication of our "Teachers' Monthly Magazine" has entailed so heavy a loss on our Committee, that they feel no longer justified in incurring it. The Magazine was undertaken quite as an experiment, at the suggestion and request of several kind friends to our Society, nor have we any reason to complain that any promised support has been withheld; but the circulation has been too small to repay the cost, and we can only come to the conclusion that such a Magazine is not required by a sufficient body of teachers to authorize us in sustaining it. The Committee have not finally decided the question, but we fear there is little probability of a more favourable aspect of the matter. Our List of Lectures and Meetings is not yet complete, but the following have been so far arranged: October 8th.-QUARTERLY DEVOTIONAL MEETING. November 18th.-LECTURE. (Simplicity is Strength, applied to Sunday School Teaching. REV. E. AURIOL.) All commencing at 8 o'Clock, except the last, and to be held in Fleet Street. ADAMS AND KING, PRINTERS, GOSWELL STREET, LONDON. Church of England SUNDAY SCHOOL QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. 31ST DECEMBER, 1851. The Teacher in his Closet. THE NEW YEAR. STOP, my young friends, and with him who addresses you, look back, at this solemn moment, upon a solemn spectacle. We have just rounded, in the midnight watch, the awe-inspiring cape of another year, after a long and diversified voyage on the waves of this troublesome world." "Bless the Lord, O our souls, and all that is within us bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O our souls, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all our iniquities; who healeth all our diseases: Who redeemeth our lives from destruction; who crowneth us with loving-kindness and tender mercies!" Let us hail this new landmark of our heavenward career as the Cape of a good and a glorious Hope, founded on our past abundant experience of the mercies of God in providence and grace, and supported by a sure trust in his promises and power. Let us look forward on the wide expanse now opening to our view. The Sun of righteousness still shines in the firmament, the Bow is still bright in the cloud, the Spirit breathes over the waters, believers are safe in their Ark, our Anchor is stedfast within the veil. Let us speed on our way rejoicing, till we come to the land of everlasting life, to regions of more than Indian wealth, and to the shores of the true Celestial empire. Another Year of grace' has passed away. How solemn a pause in the punctuation of life, ere its final period arrives! Our day of grace is still mercifully prolonged. How many, in the year past, have been "driven away in their wickedness,' or evinced a very doubtful "hope in their death," while we still remain upon earth, to cast away the works of darkness," to shine in "the armour of light," and to finish our course with joy. "The end of all things is at hand," to each of us individually, as well as to the world. What may be the event of the year upon which we have entered! What if the approaching Epiphany should prove to be the final Apocalypse! We "know not the day of our death;" we walk blindfold to the precipice of life, where we are instantly caught up into the presence of Christ, or, fall over headlong into the abodes of the lost. Having but just crossed the threshold of the dark unknown of another year, let us go softly, in the bitterness of our souls," at the recollection of our past sinfulness, unprofitableness, and ingratitude; and, under a sense of our weakness and danger, and, humbly and earnestly seeking the path of present duty and eternal safety, let us press forward, in the confidence of faith, and kindle the torch of hope, and the light shall shine upon our ways. Let us pray, with all the energy "of conspiring and persevering supplication, for a larger effusion of the Holy Spirit of promise, for a revival of God's" work in the midst of the years," and for the pouring out of "a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive." How pleasing are our recollections of the Exhibition of Fifty One, with its marvellous display of genius and wealth, and its princely design for the social well-being of man. May a concentrated zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, be the prominent Exhibition of Fifty Two. Let us, who are charged with the precious souls of the young, go forth in God's strength to redoubled labours of love. Let us build and collect, and exhibit, for eternity as well as for time. Let us strive to make a far larger ingathering of the poor, and the ignorant, to the scenes where the Gospel treasures are displayed, whether within consecrated or unconsecrated walls. The blessing of God, which has so signally attended the noble work of the year that is gone, will be as richly vouchsafed to the one in which we are now called to engage; and thousands of the little bands, whom it is our privilege to assemble upon earth, shall be added at last to the multitude which no man can number, standing on the sea of glass, surrounding the tree and the fountain of life, and singing everlasting Hallelujahs, in the presence of their Redeemer and their God. "SET THINE HOUSE IN ORDER." H. A. C. As with ceaseless flow our frail barques of mortality glide swiftly onward down the stream of time, every moment rapidly and irresist ably approaching the boundless and unknown shores of eternity, there are perhaps few seasons which invite to more serious and solemn reflections than the opening and close of each year. With the closing day, to a contemplative mind, sad thoughts are generally associated. Time-days, weeks, months, in which privileges have been slighted, the soul often neglected, talents uncultivated, opportunities of doing good lost!—all is gone!-gone for ever! And who can prepare to take a final farewell of it without something of inquisitiveness about how it has been spent by us, and of self-reproach if we have not used it well? But on the opening day of the year, how entirely different are the emotions which take possession of the heart! joyous, scheming, anticipative frame of mind is then awakened, and we seem as if we were meeting and welcoming a new and expected friend." "A One truth there is, deep thoughts of which involuntarily force themselves upon us at the present important season, and which demands our most serious consideration. By the flight of time we are hourly reminded how rapidly the sands of life are running out; how soon it will be said of each of us, as of the patriarchs of old, "He is dead!" Oh, what a solemn, momentous, and eternity of meaning in that awful monosyllable-DEATH! Yet, alas! it cannot be denied that we too seldom ponder on its certain reality. We see our friends and acquaintances, prepared or unprepared, cut down in the twinkling of an eye; we hear their funeral bell toll out its warning voice; their mournful processions pass our very doors, and weeping and bereaved friends follow them to the house appointed for all living. But how seldom do we seriously think that all which has been done for them will soon, perhaps very soon, be done for us ! No; we try to persuade ourselves that our own departure is still at a great distance, forgetting that there may be but a step between us and death; and that every breath we draw to lengthen life only shortens the distance between time and eternity-heaven or hellwhich? 99.66 99.66 99.66 a "This I say, brethren, the time is short." "A shadow," dream,," a vapour," a part,' a weaver's shuttle," "a vain show," the grass which flourishes in the morning, and in the evening is cut down-every imaginable figure is made use of in Scripture to show how limited, how "short," is the span of our present existence. And the knell of another fleeting year has just added its response to the same solemn truth. May He who is without beginning of days or end of years, the Almighty and Everlasting God of Jacob, bless all my fellow-teachers during the year whose threshold we have just crossed! May He increase in each heart, day by day, the manifold gifts and graces of |