THE Christian World Magazine AND FAMILY VISITOR. INDEX. A Hundred Years Since, 680 Doré Gallery, The. By Rev. G. W. Conder, 481 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 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 Geology, and the Six Days, 752, 860 Girl of the Period, The, and Convent Life, 302 Giving, 382 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 Brighter Hope, The. By the Rev. W. M. God-speed to the Episcopal Church. By the Statham, 561 Buchanan, Mr. Robert, 401 Cant, Religious and Political. By the Rev. 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. 622 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 XL. Cecil's Programme, 345 XLIII. The Terrace-garden, 429 XLV. The Talisman, 501 XLVII. Miss Tucker asserts Herself, 578 In the Lane. By Maggie Symington, 475 Last of the Danish Church, The, 309 Charlie, 159 "God's Finger touched him and he slept," Ramble through Winchester, A, 854 Robert Buchanan, Mr., 401 LILLA'S LONGING; or, The Fourth Beati- Sacramentarian Methodism. 948 The Editor to her Readers, 956 The Foster-Sisters, 234, 315, 395 Things that are Hidden, 314 Threefold Nature of Man, The. By Shirley Only One Little Spray. A Poem, by Lucinda Unquiet Age, The, 200 Unwise Mothers and Sour Grapes, 60 Week in Wilts, A. By the Rev. J. Cunning- 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 JANUARY, 1869. MAGAZINE. 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 |