帽 Complaints from without, Constitution of the Students of Bethany College, Consumption, 222 286 563 Conversations at the Carleton House.-Family Culture, 49, 119, 171 Family Culture.-Conversations at the Carleton House, 49, 119, 171 Montague, Elder Philip T., to Elder Thomas M. Henley, Moral bearings of Geology, Mormonism, Mystery of Mesmerism and Somnambulism explained, MVay James, Trial of, 567 197, 270 190, 358, 418, 460, 497, 538 139 282 NEWS from the Churches, 38, 89, 141, 186, 236, 273, 320, 376, 431 Our Colleges, Owe no man any thing, PARENTAL Example, Past, the Present, and the Future, Peck, Elder J. M., Plea of the American Home Missionary Society, Police Regulations of the Students of Bethany College, Popery, Aspirations of, Population of the United States, 446, 502 192, 324, 432, 527,572 557 96 190 178 140 85 72, 253, 412 422 285 496 429 Power of Prejudice, Prayer, Preface, 523 179 3 Reformation, scriptural, 471 276,571 95, 239 85 234 528 311 142 407 Review of Beecher's article on the import of baptidso, 159, 201, 247 Rhemish Testament, 132 Sermon on Debt, Signs of the Times, Sin unto Death and the Sin against the Holy Spirit, Spirit of God, Stevenson, Rev. W. W., an Address delivered by, Success of the Gospel, Synagogue Worship, 295 177 181 85 533, 550 481 570 342 PREFACE. We now commence the twentieth volume of our editorial labors.Through the kind providence of our heavenly Father, not one month in so many years has passed without our regular issue of a new missionary. At the close of the present volume we shall have issued more than a million of monthly numbers. These, of course, have done, and are doing, something in the great moral change which is incessantly going forward in this community. This, however, is but a single item in our editorial labors. And when we think of the sermons that are preached-the discussions that are in progress-the tracts that are issued, and the volumes that are circulated on the great subjects of religion and morality, wo are no little astonished at the labors, and means, and instrumentalities that are requisite to the demands of society in this great moral regeneration now advancing with every pulse of life in every part of the civilized world. The human mind seems to need the incessant stimulus of new ideas, of thought, and motive to raise it above the ordinary level of mere animal enjoyment. Man is naturally indolent, and requires some impulse from without to rouse him into action. His appetites and passions will sometimes do this; but the range of their activities is very limitted compared with that of his intellectual and moral powers. The Press, together with the facile and abundant means of social intercourse, keep the energies of all employed, who have either a mind to perceive, or a heart to feel the important duties of human life and the high destiny to which man is born under the reign of the Messiah. The constant developments of the Periodical Literary, and Religious Press, when well conducted, minister continuous edification and comfort to the intelligent, and exert a powerful and happy influence in the formation of human character, and in elevating the standard of public taste and moral excellence. If there be any one subject more than another the peculiar burthen of this age, it is the subject of Education in its various departments, and in all the ways and means of its advancement. The civilized world is just awaking to this subject. It is about commencing one grand crusade against ignorance and vice-against irreligion and profanity. It is now a demonstrated proposition that the only effectual preventive of atheism, anarchy, and misrule, is a rational and moral education. Morals neglected, and intellectual development is a public calamity. If, then, the volume for the year 1842 be distinguished by any one subject more than another, it is intended that it shall be for its devotion to the subject of Education, domestic, scholastic, and ecclesiastic. Next to this is the subject of Ecclesiastic Organization. Within the whole precincts of the progressive reformation of this age, there is nothing more at fault than the whole affair of church organization. We have the words 'co-operation,' ‘organization,' and 'order' in con stant employment; but who has evinced a practical understanding of them in reference to the public interests of a great community? The calls upon us for a full investigation of this subject are imperious as well as numerous. It must have its full share of our attention in the present volume. The signs of the times are also more and more imposing. That we are approaching some great crisis in human affairs is daily becoming more and more the persuasion of many intelligent and devout professors. These, of course, together with disquisitions on Prophecy, will still command a portion of our attention. But the past is the best pledge we can give for the future. We annually learn to promise less, and daily study the philosophy of doing, rather than of saying what we intend to do. A. CAMPBELL. |