Public Worship is conducted in the above Church as follows, viz.:
The back page of the Wrapper-which is, of course, pasted over the Magazine
-has upon it, in large type, the following:
The friend who lends you this little publication will call and exchange it for
another; and as it is intended to circulate among your neighbours, you will kindly
keep it as clean as possible. It will be found to contain profitable reading; and it is
hoped that as you receive it and other kindred publications, from time to time, you
will become increasingly interested in their contents, and be anxious to extend their
usefulness, so far as your influence can reach, in your immediate locality.
In this way, then, a hundred copies of the Magazine are made to act, more or
dess directly, upon, probably, not less than a thousand individuals, none of whom
might otherwise see it, or anything of the sort. Would that two thousand of
our Independent Churches might be led thus to act in their several localities!
In this way the mass of all-important truth embodied in the PENNY MAGAZINE
might be made, in some degree, every month, to bear upon a quarter of a million
of immortal souls. Will our honoured friends, the Deacons of the Churches,
and all who take the lead in works of love, be so good as to turn their attention
to the matter, in the prospect of the new year? They need not be apprised
that, in point of deep and varied interest, of adaptation to meet both sexes and
all ages, no tract whatever, comprising only a single subject, can, for a moment,
be compared with the PENNY MAGAZINE. It will afford reading for a week to
most individuals and families, and bring before them a large supply of doctrinal,
experimental, and practical instruction. We hope to hear of great things, in
the course of the year about to dawn upon the world, illustrative of this method
of labour.