JULY 1, 1868 VOL. XVIII. No. CCV. [Registered for Transmission Abroad.] THE BULWARK LONDON: SEELEYS, JACKSON, & HALLIDAY, AND J. NISBET & CO. LIVERPOOL: G. PHILIP & SON. DUBLIN: G. HERBERT. AND SOLD AT 66 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, AND BY ALL BOOKSELLES. Price 24d. or 2s. 6d. per Annum.-Per Post, 3s. 6d. per Annum. Per 1303.2.52 CONTENTS. To Correspondents-All Communications for the Editor, and Books for Review, are Subscriptions received from 10th May 1868 to 10th June 1868. Other ubscriptions received per Agents during this period will appear in next number. 1 0 0 Do. (don.) for London, 4 0 0 Do. for London, Scott, Miss Louisa, per London Office, per Mr Soutter- Brot. forward, Thomson, Dr, THE BULWARK OR REFORMATION JOURNAL. OUR EIGHTEENTH VOLUME. T is not necessary, in commencing our eighteenth volume, to say that IT the continuance of our periodical is necessary. The urgent necessity for its continued existence will be readily admitted now by multitudes who at one time were ready to maintain that our alarm in regard to the growth and danger of Popery were visionary, or at least exaggerated. Time has fully vindicated all our statements, and proved that we only saw a little farther than some of our neighbours during the last seventeen years. The question is now coming very near an issue, and it will depend, humanly speaking, on the events of the next few years, whether Protestant faith and liberty are to be vindicated and maintained anew in this land, or Great Britain is to sink again under the dominion of Romish tyranny and superstition. This serious alternative may well arouse us to prayer and effort. There are manifest indications on both sides. Rome is making steady advances both in her undisguised form, and under the Jesuitical cover of Ritualism. Both Churchmen and Dissenters are to a large extent profoundly apathetic. Still, a very extensive awakening has lately taken place in all parts of the kingdom, and even in connexion with political action, whilst the classes of the Scottish Reformation Society, as well as other means, have tended to diffuse sound information in regard to our duty and danger. The operation of the new constituencies is now an important question. If anything like the old spirit of opposition to Popery exhibits itself amongst the masses of the English and Scotch people-and of this we have some good hope-the very best results may yet be anticipated. Again and again England has been saved when matters were quite as hopeless as at present, and let us earnestly pray that it may be so again In the face of all discouragement and danger, let us earnestly work for this grand result. In the language of the old battle-cry, "Let us be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God, and the Lord do as seemeth unto Him good." VOL. XVIII. NO. CCV.-JULY 1868. A |
