against here, but there is no distant probability, from recent events in France, and the state of the continental kingdoms generally, that England will have to watch and act against a not unlikely confederacy of Romish allies to destroy the liberties, civil and religious, of all Protestant States, The CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN must, therefore, more than ever, be on the alert to expose, with holy faithfulness, the absurdities and errors of Rome, in its doctrine and ritual, and to watch with vigilance the movements of its partisans at home and abroad, in their working out the ever-shifting political phases of their falsely termed religious system. The later numbers of our Magazine have been occupied, perhaps too largely to suit many readers, with specimens of revised Services ; in the future discussion of the subject of revision, it has been determined no longer to give these proposed alterations at length, but to state briefly, and in parallel columns, the very few things which it appears desirable either to omit or alter. For our own part, while we feel no reluctance in admitting articles and correspondence upon a subject which we think must sooner or later be forced upon the consideration of the whole Church, yet we quite agree with a recent valued correspondent, that the present position of clerical parties justifies the Archbishop from now entertaining the question, and that we must first “endeavour to change the circumstances of the case; the clergy at large must examine, not how much they would wish to be altered in our Liturgy, but how much it is absolutely necessary to reform, and to try to come to some agreement as to the number of points upon which it is indispensable to make a change, and the nature of the changes to be made. Surely, if there be such a thing as the faith once for all delivered to the saints,' it ought not to be difficult for those who hold that faith, if they lay aside their own wishes and put on seriousness and moderation, to come to an agreement as to what it is essential to reform, and to be content with that only. Should such a degree of concord be found, and should it embrace a large portion of the clergy and laity, I cannot but think that the united voices of such a company of the faithful would make themselves to be heard and prevail.: Such is the end, for the 6 attainment of which I could wish to see a general effort in operation." In now looking forward to the labours of the coming year, the conductors of this Magazine determine, in dependence upon the aid of the God of all power and wisdom, to make their pages the vehicle of imparting and maintaining Christian Truth, and of exposing and combating the various forms of error and superstition which are ever doing their works of mischief. Although sincerely attached to the principles of the Church of England, the Editors are not careful that their "churchmanship" should occasionally be "impugned,” if only they are found faithful to the far deeper truths of the whole Church of Christ, as set forth in the Bible ; to which only standard of truth it is the aim of the conductors of this periodical to bring their own beloved Church into more perfect agreement and consistency. It is trusted that not only are their past labours regarded with approbation, but that their future exertions will receive an increasing measure of support. December, 1851. INDEX. ........ Page Page Address of the archbishops and Baptismal Service, specimen of a bishops .... 190 revised 450 Aggression, the papal 240 Barber's, M. A. S., Du Bourg...... 91 Aids for Determining. Rev. W. Bath and Wells, bishop of, and Goode 90 High Church principles 286 Alliance, proposed Protestant 283 Being with Jesus 501 the Evangelical 376 Believer a mystery, the... 157 the Protestant..... 528, 566 Bequests, munificent 585 All-sufficient Saviour, the 149 Best's, Mrs., Casket Rifled 526 Alterations in the Liturgy, impolicy Bible, revision of the....... 135 of 34, 86 Bickersteth, Rev. E, Memoir of, Amos, Lectures on the Book of. by Rev. T. R. Birks ... 275, 320 Rev. V. W. Ryan. 464 Birkbeck schools, the 228 Angel, the sealing of the . 164 Bishop of Exeter's pastoral letter... 188 Anglican form of Church goverul London and Tractarian ment, on the 553 Churches 96 Anglicanism considered in its re Remarks on Dr. • sults. W. Dodsworth. 181, 233, 278 Pusey's letter to ........ 68 Anniversaries of religious societies. 132 Norwich and Dr. Newman 474 Appointment of ministers, the...... 418 Nova Scotia, the new 144 Apprentice, the goldsmith and his 161 Tuam and Irish converts ... 377 Apocalypse, Handbook for the...... 327 Bishopric of Bombay 331 Apocrypha in Germany, the.......... 382 Bonar's, Rev. H., Man, his Religion Apocryphal lessons, the and his World 142 17 and episco- Bristol, the dean of, and Dr. M‘Neile 406 pal orders 429, 477 British and Foreign Bible Society. 236 Archdeacon Manning, secession of. 191 Museum, the Scriptures in Argument with a Romanist 461 the Argyll's, Duke of, Speech 332 Buonaparte, Louis-Napoleon 565 Arrogancy, Ignatius vindicated from Burial Service, the 423, 550 113, 167 Byrth, Rev. Thomas, D.D., ReArticles and the Catechism, the 422 mains of, by Rev. G. R. Moncreiff 561 Attila and Napoleon.... 258 Australasian synod, the.... 334 CANONRY of St. Paul's .. 474 Canterbury, Address to the ArchbiBABYLON and the Banks of the shop of 142 Euphrates .. 92 Archbishop of, and episBaptism, a Father's Thoughts on. copal orders ... 429 W. H. Madden 93 Letter to the Archbishop Baptismal Regeneration 557 of. M. D'Aubigné 316 421 523 ........... 289 ... Page Page 401 526 385 C. Stannard 185 Conversion and baptism of a Hindoo 420 367 Converts to Protestantism, Irish 377 424 Crabb, death of the Rev. James 432 445 433 Cumming's, Dr., Voices of the Day 232 225 the Archbishop of Canterbury 316 280 Davies, Rev. C. H., Hints and Sug- gestions 138 -, on oral tradition. 353 on revision of the 329 179, 413, 493 402 Death-bed of a Romanist....... 143 253 Rev. James Crabb 432 378 444 283 17 Diotrephes, query respecting 135 75 Dodsworth's, W., Anglicanism con- 181, 233, 278 236 Drummond's, H., Plea for Women 328 Du Bourg: 91 149 237 401 Emmaus, the Saviour's walk to 342 481 468 37 -,the Parliamentary Ses- Episcopal orders, the Archbishop of 429, 477 revenues, order in coun- 432 177 the Ephesians 116 Romans... 117 401 Euphrates, Babylon and the Banks 93 376 310 synod, the..... 239, 283, 379 191, 237 145 313 526 187 |
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