THE Christian World Magazine AND FAMILY VISITOR. INDEX. A Hundred Years Since, 680 Dried Flower from the Lebanon, A, 224 Eye upon the Treasure, The, 140 APOSTLE'S LADDER, THE. By Maggie Syming. Florence and its Neighbourhood, 758 ton FOSTER SISTERS, THE; or, the Third Beatitude. By Emma Leslie I. Fond of Music, 234 II. "Blessed are the Meek," 315 III. Nurse's Confession, 395 Frederick William Krummacher, 610 From London to Skye and Back, 538, 388 GENIE GATES. By Maggie Symington- II. No Sense of a Wedding, 695 IV. Faith and Unfaith, 766 V. Genie's Savings, 842 VI. The Rift within the Lute, 849 VII. Unstable as the Waves, 925 VIII. "The Music Mute," 932 BELGIAN PHOTOGRAPHS. By J.Ewing Ritchie-Geology, and the Six Days, 752, 860 I. The Feast of the Virgin, Antwerp, 723 II. A Day at Waterloo, 726 III. A Sunday in Brussels, 729 IV. The Beguinage, 828 V. Still Life, 831 VI. The Wiertz Museum, 833 Beyond. A Poem, 59 Brighter Hope, The. Statham, 561 Girl of the Period, The, and Convent Life, 302 Glimpses through the Clerestory; or, Side Lights of the Church. By Timothy B. "God's Finger touched him, and he slept." A Poem. By Margaret Housman, 800 By the Rev. W. M. God-speed to the Episcopal Church. By the Buchanan, Mr. Robert, 401 Cant, Religious and Political. By the Rev. J. G. Rogers, B.A., 351 Charlie, by Lucinda Bowser, 159 Cousins, The; or, Courage and Moral Courage. By Anne Depe, 629, 708, 789 Foster Sisters, The. By Emma Leslie, 234, 315, 395 Hampty-Dumpty, 73, 152 In the Lane. By Maggie Symington, 475 Little Rosalind's Fairy Tale, 549 Christianity No Foe to Searchers after Truth. Common Errors about the Lord's Supper, 81 rage. By Anne Depe- Rev. W. M. Statham, 112 GREY AND GOLD. By Emma Jane WorboiseXXVII. "Little Ellie," 20 XXVIII. An Old County Family, 28 XXIX. Poetry no Yield, 34 XXX. A Point Carried, 90 XXXI. The Old Bane, 98 XXXII. Lady Torrisdale, 106 XXXIII. Evening-tide, 171 XXXIV. Nothing like Money, 179 XXXV. Oswald astonishes Esther, 185 XXXVI. Esther is Misunderstood, 257 XXXVII. Prose and Poetry, 265 XXXVIII. At the Slade Again, 271 XXXIX. "It is all my doing," 331 XL. Cecil's Programme, 345 XLIII. The Terrace-garden, 429 XLV. The Talisman, 501 LILLA'S LONGING; or, The Fourth Beati- Sacramentarian Methodism. tude. By Emma Leslie- I., 872 II., 950 Little Rosalind's Fairy Tale, 549 London to Skye and Back, From, 588 Membership in Congregational Churches, 39 Modern Sisterhoods, 774 Sepulchre in the Garden, The. By the Rev. Sermon on Science, in a Country Church, A. New Chapter of Christian Evidences, 277 CECUMENICAL COUNCILS: What have they The Editor to her Readers, 956 The Foster-Sisters, 234, 315, 395 Things that are Hidden, 314 Threefold Nature of Man, The. By Shirley Travelling Ladies, 701 Trenton Moss. By the Author of "Beech Only One Little Spray. A Poem, by Lucinda Unquiet Age, The, 200 OUR DINNER SERVICE. By the Author of I. The Peacock Set, 463 II. The "A. S. S." and the "M. S. S.," 519 Our Less Conspicuous National Defences. By Our Little Match-makers, 149 I. Unwise Mothers and Sour Grapes, 60 II. Incompetent Women, 125 What Ecumenical Councils have done for the Church. By Rev.J.G. Rogers, B.A., 801, 910 Winning a Marriage Portion, 377 Winter Rhyme, A. A Poem. By Lucinda Women of Faculty, 216 WOMEN WORKERS- THE CHRISTIAN WORLD MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1869. THE NEW ALLIANCE BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE. A LETTER TO LORD SHAFTESBURY. BY PETER BAYNE, M. A. MY LORD,-You are recognised throughout Christendom as the head of the Evangelical party in the Church of England. You possess the confidence of perhaps a larger proportion of the Nonconformist community than any other member of the Church, lay or clerical. You declared on a memorable occasion, in the House of Lords, that you had all your life been a Radical, and the correctness of the designation was felt, not because you have acted with this or that Parliamentary section, but because your countrymen believe that you have courage to go to the root of matters. You have had large experience. You know England well. Thoroughly understanding the Evangelical clergy, and sympathising with all that is right and honourable in their professional feeling, you are in a position, as a statesman, to take a broader view of the requirements of the nation and the circumstances of the time than can be reasonably expected of them. It is no disparagement to simple-minded persons, clerical or lay, to declare that, amid the changes of this agitating period, they are in perplexity. The path of duty seems wrapped in clouds. To you many eyes are at this moment turned for counsel and for guidance. You stand in the place of William Wilberforce, at a time when a greater than Wilberforce is needed for the crisis. Of the gravity of the situation no man has a clearer conviction than your Lordship. Your speeches for the last few years, both at B |