THE

LOCAL PREACHERS' MAGAZINE

AND

CHRISTIAN FAMILY RECORD

FOR THE YEAR 1878.

THE AUTHORISED ORGAN OF THE

Wesleyan Methodist Local Preachers' Mutual-Aid Association.

ESTABLISHED MDCCCXLIX.

"Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."

PUBLISHED FOR THE ASSOCIATION BY PHILIP PARKER,
AT THEIR OFFICE, 19, EXETER HALL, STRAND, W.C.

SOLD BY KENT & Co., SIMPKIN & Co., PATERNOSTER ROW;
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1878.

Per. 11144e. 29.

28.

LONDON:

CHALONER AND COOKE,

PRINTERS.

The Style of the Great
Writers
Hold Fast to the Bible - 151
Advantages of Extem-
poraneous Preaching - 220
Livingstone's Journal 244
Word to the Dull
Folks

Bible Fascination and
Power
Methodism in South
Australia

George Stephenson

247

248 278

W. Alen, G Bowen, F.
R. Nichol. J. Jones
J. Knill, L. Elyard, Mrs.
Glover. Geo. Gregory
Sarah Ann Smith, John
Odell, Thomas Smith 127
Mrs. Stringer, Mary

157

Ann To ulins, Mar-
gery Roberts, G. Ir-
ving, Elizabeth Hod-
son, Mrs. Cook, Thos.
245
Smith
Richard Foster, Thos.
Roberts, James Beck 158
G. Robinson, T. Honey-
church, J. Stott, Mary
Hallam, W. Bartholo-
mew, Thos. Cook,
Enos Cox, J. Pillen-
ger
Mrs. Brabner, Richard
Smedley, George Ed-
wards, Mary Hands - 223
J. C. Hawes, Wm. Pond 254
W. Thornton, Thos.
Hadley, Thos. Wrat-
hall, John Jackson,
Thos. Littlewood, W.
Leake, John Smith
B. Knowles, Mrs. Ma-
thew, Elisha Lousby- 320

The English Language - 279
The Way to Prosper 28)
Excuses for Ignorance - 280
Trust in Providence 281
It Will Not Be So
Always
Our Little Nellie Sleeps
Here
282
The Lord Will Provide - 282
Help in Trouble

Elder Leland's Ordina

281

283

310

311

313

Wesley among Children 313
On Fits-
314
Christ the Best Husband 314
Cannibalism in Africa 315
Conversion of an Infidel 316
Idleness
- 316

American Methodism 317
Not With Them When

Hawkins' Short Sketches 177
Metcalf on the Water

The Homiletic Quarterly 241
Henn's Bursted Shell 275

Moody's Addresses
The Christian
Scripture Leaflets by
G. W. Moon
The Sure Mercies of
David, by Anna Ship-

ton Henn's Truth Set Free 307

286

Armstrong's Treasury
Dialogues

307

350

Griffith's Notes on the

Gospels

307

Children's

Peril and

Rescue

378

301

Literary Notices.

Dale's Lectures on
Preaching

Report of Hackney Road

20

Mission

313

India

345

Livingstone's Last Jour

nal

347

A Golden Christmas
Biblical Things Not
Generally Known

21, 55