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THE

GOSPEL MAGAZINE;

AND

Protestant Beacon.

COMFORT YE, COMFORT YE, MY PEOPLE, SAITH YOUR GOD."

66 ENDEAVOURING TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE."

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IRELAND:

Printed at the Bonmahon Industrial Printing School, Co. Waterford.-Established Oct 20, 1851, by the Rev. D. A. Doudney, Curate of Monksland.

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PREFACE.

"EBENEZER!"

"Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”

TO THE READER.

BELOVED,-We greet you at the close of another volume in the name of our most glorious Christ! By his help-through his mercy-and in consequence of covenant and indissoluble union, we salute each other upon the opening of the farewell month of the year; and with gratitude testify that "having obtained help of God we continue unto this day."

We set up, therefore, our "Ebenezer," in token of our sense of his distinguishing goodness, for "hitherto hath the Lord helped us."

Beloved, we cannot close the year without asking you to join us in the contemplation of the bygone days, and months, and years of our pilgrimage-not, indeed, as those days, months, and years appertain to ourselves—for what belongeth to poor fallen and corrupt nature but shame and confusion of face?-but we ask you to contemplate them as they stand associated with the gracious dealings of our God.

Beloved, as year is added to year of our sojourn in the wilderness, so is our amazement and our admiration increased in the recollection of what our God has been-what He is—and what He has covenanted to be! His mercy, how rich! his compassions, how unfailing! his forbearance, how astounding his long-suffering, how unceasing! his bounty, how vast! his faithfulness, how uninterrupted! Is it not so ? Look back, we pray you, ten, twenty, thirty-aye, some of you fifty, sixty years, and see the stream of love, and mercy, and care, that has followed you throughout! "Lacked ye anything?" "Hath anything failed of all the good things. which the Lord your God spake concerning you?" "Has he been a wilderness, or a land of darkness?" What has really injured you? What are you the worse for any trial, any temptation, any affliction ?" What enemy has in reality prevailed? For a season this or that foe may have appeared to triumph; but who had the best of it in the issue? "Where are those thine accusers? Doth no man condemn thee? No man, Lord."

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