N.B.-Post-office orders to be made payable to Mr. Frederick William Willcocks, 98, Goswell-street. LIST OF FRIENDS WHO SENT BOOKS, ETC., TO SIERRA LEONE, BY PREFACE. THE present Editor having given his views of the character and object of a periodical which should represent the Connexion, in the number for August last, has little to add to what was then advanced. He hopes he has preserved the spirit of such a publication, and with as much ability as the contributions of his friends have furnished. His desire has been to give utterance to opinions on what he considers open questions, although some of them might not be in strict accordance with his own. The shortness, indeed, of his official time, the disposition in many to read what others have penned rather than to write themselves, and the limited space of these pages, must be his apology for the want of greater interest. The Editor offers his sincere and warm thanks for the numerous expressions of approbation of the work, as well as for the valuable papers which have been sent to him. As far as it respects himself, the Editor can only say, that none of the most critical of his readers is more sensible of the defects of his performance, than he is himself; yet he is supported with the knowledge, that he has sincerely and disinterestedly endeavoured to make the "Countess of Huntingdon's Magazine" answer its intention with respect to the Ministers, Congregations, and Schools of the Connexion, and to friends of other denominations who may have perused its pages. The Review Department would have been better filled up if more new publications had been sent for notice. The Editor solicits the fervent prayers of all who sympathise with him, that the Magazine and every other endeavour to revive the good work among us, to interest, encourage, and save souls, and to glorify God, may be crowned with that blessing without which nothing is strong, nothing is holy. Cheltenham. J. K. F. |