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THE

CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE,

AND

MISSIONARY REPOSITORY.

EDITED BY J. F. WINKS.

VOLUME XIII.-1850.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

LEICESTER:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. F. WINKS.

THE EDITOR TO HIS YOUNG READERS.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,

You have now gone with me through another year, reading what I wrote or selected for your perusal, and I hope you have been both amused and edified.

The end of this year brings us to the close of the first half of the nineteenth century. Very few of these fifty years can you remember, but I can remember their beginning, and am now, through Divine mercy, permitted to see their close. Strange things have taken place in the world during these fifty years, of some of which I intend to tell you when the next year begins, if I live to see it.

Briefly, during these fifty years kings have lost their crowns and nations their liberties, and regained them again. Peacesmiling cheerful Peace-came in the place of horrid frightful War; and then men sat down quietly to invent those very wonderful improvements of which our fathers knew nothing, and at which, could they come again, they would greatly wonder.

But the greatest thing done in these fifty years was done in the fourth, (1804,) when War was raging, and more than ten before Peace came; and that was the formation of what was called the "Bible Society," to give to men all over the world the Holy Writings of God-by far the most noble and glorious thing ever done by man.

And among other good things which were invented were these little MAGAZINES FOR CHILDREN. There had been, for many years, Magazines for men and women, but none for children, until JOHN CAMPBELL sent out his first Teachers' Offering, at one penny. Well do I remember the first number coming! After this many more made their appearance.

Little did I then think I should ever publish one; but about ten years after the first magazine for children appeared the desire of my heart was granted, and ever since, more or less, I have been at the work, and have now completed twenty-five years service one half of the whole period under notice.

Next year, if the Lord permit, I start afresh. How much longer I may be permitted to follow this pleasant labour the LORD only knoweth. I can only say that as long as He permits I shall; for it is to me a favourite employment, that I have always loved, and always shall.

May the good and gracious GoD smile on this and every such attempt to lead the young in the paths of intelligence, virtue, and piety—and, saved from his sins by Jesus Christ, may every one of my young readers be found at last bound up in the bundle of ETERNAL LIFE!

THE EDITOR.

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