PREFACE. THE Publisher having intimated to the Editor, that the publication of this Magazine must close with the December Number; while the Editor announces the fact, he is unwilling to part with his many kind readers and correspondents without a friendly farewell. - With this year, the Eighth Volume of the Church Sunday School Magazine will be completed, which with many admitted defects and many obvious shortcomings, the Editor trusts, whether in his hands or those of his predecessor, has neither been without utility nor altogether devoid of good, to those who have supported its circulation, or perused its pages. The Eitor could say a great deal more to-day, generally as regards the Magazine—but time and space alike forbid it. This however, he may say—as his parting words of Editorial concern in these pages,—that if any reader has found the slightest profit, or received the slightest benefit from his humble labours, during the last five years— his endeavours have been fully rewarded, and his hopes abundantly fulfilled! He begs to offer, once again, his warm acknowledgments to those who have in past times, so cheerfully aided his work; and to say-a friendly good-bye to all the many considerate readers, who have not disdained to linger awhile over the unpretending pages of the Church Sunday School Magazine. LEEDS, St. Andrew's Day, 1853. |