Excerpt from The Gospel Advocate, Vol. 2: For the Year 1822 Many Of the events Of the past year have been such as should fill the hearts Of Christians with joy and gratitude. Wars, and rumours of wars, have greatly diminished in the earth; and in their place we have frequent intelligence that the glad tidings Of great joy which shall be to all people are more and more heard and regarded in almost all parts Of the world. There is, indeed, one contest still left to rage, which should fill the hearts Of Christians with mourning. A Christian peo ple (christian at least in name) is struggling for their very 2/ mar' 190' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.