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ADDRESS TO OUR READERS.

great efforts (of course in the kind and gentle spirit of their Master) to rescue their brethren from an error so injurious to the efficiency of the church at large. Should any christian brother think us, however, rather too denominational in our professedly Baptist Magazine, "THE APPEAL" will assure him that we can take equal interest, and labour with equal earnestness, in an effort in which we may defy any one to detect the denomination of the Editors. If we long to purify the church of Christ from what we deem to be the traditions of men, we long yet more to bring sinners into any part of his true church, however its views may differ from our own; and we do look to catholic-minded Pædobaptists to encourage us in so catholic an effort as "The Appeal."

With regard to the future, the past must be our principal pledge. We have, however, arranged for obtaining some help from abroad, which will in a month or two, we trust, be available. We may also add, that we have been furnished with a very interesting series of VILLAGE SERMONS by John Foster, the Notes of which were carefully taken down at the time, by one of his hearers. They bear much the same relation to Mr. Foster's more elaborate efforts, as Greenfield's Notes of Mr. Hall's sermons to his printed ones. They will interest every class of our readers.

The past year has been an eventful one; but we defer a brief notice of it till its completion.