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THE

SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN HERALD;

CONDUCTED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE

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MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

MARCH 5,-DECEMBER 31, 1836.,

VOLUME I.

"THE FEAR OF THE LORD, THAT IS WISDOM."

EDINBURGH :

JOHN JOHNSTONE, HIGH STREET:

J. NISBET & CO.; HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO.; AND R. GROOMBRIDGE, LONDON:
W. CURRY, JUNIOR, & CO., DUBLIN; AND W. M'COMB, BELFAST.

MDCCCXXXVI.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

IN presenting to the Public the First Volume of the SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN HERALD, the Conductors cannot refrain from stating the high satisfaction which they feel in contemplating the success with which their labours have, thus far, been crowned. The Periodical was originally projected with the avowed design of "Illustrating and enforcing the doctrines of the Bible,—the great essential principles of Evangelical Grace and Truth ;" and how far this design has been fulfilled may be readily seen by a reference to its pages. The most strenuous efforts have been exerted to combine solid Scriptural instruction with interesting and varied information, and it must certainly afford sincere pleasure to every well constituted mind, that a periodical exclusively devoted to topics connected with the spiritual and eternal concerns of mankind, should be so widely diffused, in the course of a few months, as to cover the length and breadth of the land, and be welcomed weekly, with ever increasing interest, by all classes of the community. Such a result is in the highest degree encouraging, and calls for the liveliest gratitude to Almighty God, the promotion of whose cause,-the wisest, the noblest, and the best, the SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN HERALD is humbly destined to subserve.

In the present Volume are contained Original Articles by upwards of One Hundred Authors, clerical and lay. In point of literary merit, the contributions speak for themselves; and it is impossible, we conceive, to find, within the same limited space, in any other publication whatever, so great a quantity of varied and valuable information, bearing the authority of the names of the Authors.

That a Publication of this nature is calculated, under the Divine blessing, to produce the most salutary effects can scarcely, for a moment, be doubted, communicating, as it does, a varied combination of truths, both useful and entertaining, and that too, compressed within such narrow limits as to be readily perused by multitudes who have neither leisure nor opportunity to avail themselves of works of larger dimensions. And, accordingly, it appears from the accounts received from all parts of the country, that even in districts the most remote, and hitherto excluded from the range of periodical literature, whether secular or religious, the SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN HERALD has been uniformly received as a boon, and has led, in numerous instances, to the most gratifying change in the character and conduct not of individuals merely, but of whole families. There is reason to hope, indeed, that the weekly distribution of Forty Thousand Copies of a Publication so completely adapted for instructive perusal, both on Sabbath and week-days, will ultimately be productive of incalculable good to the country at large. In these encouraging circumstances, the Conductors pledge themselves to proceed with redoubled alacrity and vigour in the Christian cause in which they have embarked, trusting in the strength of HIM to whom they are desirous that all the glory of their success should be ascribed.

EDINBURGH,

31st December, 1836.}

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INDEX TO VOLUME I.

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Sanctified, 31.

The Benefit of, 367.

Necessary to Successful Preach-

On the Efficacy of, 335.

Africa, South, Moravian Settlement in, 583.
African Prince, An, 320.

America, Nominal Christians in, 224.
America, South, Stray Leaves from a Jour-
mal in. By the Rev. David Waddell, 286,
615, 679.

Amusements, Frivolous, 543.

Lawfulness of, 79.

Angels, The Ministry of, 96.

Angusina, a Greenland Convert, 123.

Anne, Princess, 240.

Apologue, An Old, 623.

Apprentice, An American, 448.

Ararat, Mount, An Ascent to the Top of,

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Principle and Consistency, The In-
fluence of, 428.

Christian's, The Dying. Anticipations of

Death and Glory. By Richard Huie,

Esq., M.D., 608.

Progress towards the Perfection

of Heaven. A Discourse, by the Rev.
David Strong, 40.

Great Work. A Discourse, by the
Rev. James Somerville, 392.

Motive in his Great Work. A Dis-
course, by the Rev. James Somerville,
440.

Christians, the Support of the World, 16.

Ancient, 32.

Difference among, 479.

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Compounding with, 447.

A Guilty, The Horrors of, Exem

plified. By Thomas Brown, Esq., 647.

Consistency, The Necessity of Christian, 96.

Consistent, Be. 351.

Contentment, 416.

Continent, The, 64.

Contrast between Christ and Mahomet, 351.

Cottager, A Female, 656.

Covenant, The Solemn League and, 61.
Conversions, Sudden. By the Rev. Robert
M Cheyne, 203.

Covenanters, The. By John Galt, Esq., 480.
Counsels, Salutary, 415.

Cowper, Rev. J., A.M. Last Hours of, 578.
Curiosity, On the Evil of Vain. By the Rev.
James Foote, A. M., 581, 621, 652.

Craig, John, Some striking passages in the

Life of, 141.

Cranmer, Archbishop, The Martyrdom of,

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By the Rev. Stevenson

Winter an Emblem of, 685.

Deluge, The Traditions of, 373.

Desert, On Mungo Park's finding a Tuft of
Green Moss in the African, 80.

Destruction, The Broad road leadeth to, 319.

Devotee, The Indian, 464.

Dew, 560.

Diligence, 223.

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