THIS Magazine, referred to in the diary of the late Mr. Sinclair, Wick, deserves a brief notice. To most of our readers it is quite unknown, while a few have been acquainted with it for a number of years. The Gospel Magazine, it may be stated, has a remarkable history. It was established in 1766, and is the oldest magazine in England. It was started for the purpose of promoting devotion and piety, and of extending the knowledge of the great truths of the Gospel. This purpose has been consistently carried out during the long period of one hundred and thirty years. The magazine has numbered among its editors such advocates of evangelical truth as the Rev. Augustus M. Toplady, the eminent champion of Calvinism, whose well-known hymn “Rock of Ages” appeared first in its pages; William Mason, author of notes on the Pilgrim’s Progress; and Rev. D. A. Doudney, D.D., who conducted the magazine for 53 years with remarkable interest and success, until his death a few years ago. The present editor is the Rev. James Ormiston, rector of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol, who is esteemed as one of the staunchest Protestants and defenders of Calvinistic doctrine in the Church of England. The magazine still contains from month to month instructive articles which are not only sound in doctrine, but have a rich, spiritual, and experimental quality. There is just one thing we miss, in otherwise excellent and soul edifying articles, namely, the call of the Gospel to sinners universally. Apart from this tendency to hyper-Calvinism, and, as a consequence, to a pretty high doctrine of assurance, the teaching is well fitted to be useful to those who have truly tasted that the Lord is gracious, and helpful to seekers of the way of salvation. Of course, uninspired hymns are freely quoted, being almost universally used in public and private in England. We would like to see England returning to the exclusive use of the Psalms in worship, which was a characteristic of the Reformation. We are able, however, cordially to recommend this magazine as a valuable monthly, that will not fail to instruct the spiritual reader, and that might well fill the place of the trash of religious periodicals that are so common in families now-a-days. The number for January begins the thirty-first volume, and a sketch of the history and aims of the magazine is given, which concludes as follows:—”It is at a crisis in the history of the Church of God when the Pope of Rome is labouring to reverse the settlement of the English Reformation by schemes for reunion with the Established Church; when sacerdotalism within the Church of England is avowedly prepared to make terms with the Papacy; when the so-called “Higher Criticism” is seeking to sap the plenary inspiration of the Divine Scriptures; and when the disastrous tendency of Nonconformity is to accept the “Down Grade” methods in various forms,—that The Gospel Magazine solicits the extended co-operation of those Christians of all denominations who esteem the pure truth of the Gospel of the free and sovereign grace of God above all other considerations, and who are determined to “contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the saints.” The magazine costs sixpence, and is published by Messrs. Collingridge, 148 and 149 Aldersgate Street, London, E.C. The following is a reprint that appeared in November last from the same magazine for January, 1766:—