Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: help to which they may be entitled To know, therefore, from the start, that many hearts and hands are with us, may well inspire courage for the work, and confidence of its success. On our part it shall be our constant prayerful purpose and endeavor to make the Monthly answer the highest reasonable expectations. Although the present number was prepared under some disadvantages, it may be taken as an earnest of what we hope to achieve. The most dangerous present foes of the evangelical Church, are in her own household; men seeking to disturb and shake her faith in her own principles, and directly or indirectly commending or excusing principles and practices inexorably hostile to her true life. To exhibit these in their true light ? to expose their false theories and their treacherous schemes, will be enough to defeat them. Our friends have understood, and will now more clearly perceive, that the Reformed Church Monthly intends to do its part without reserve, in making such an exposure. People shall not be deceived into an alienation of their hearts from the Church of their fathers, by gross misrepresentations of her true historical character, if the Monthly will be allowed to show the injustice of such misrepresentations. They shall not be persuaded, that they have been kept in darkness, until in these last days the first rays of what claims to be called the true light, have consented to shine upon them; not if the testimony of history, and of facts will be accepted, in preference to the haughty, inflated, and infatuated pretensions and boasts of immeasurable scholastic vanity. The, February number of the Monthly will contain, among other contributions, an article concerning Infants and Baptism, by the Rev. Dr. Williard, President of Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio; anoth...