Maunsell, Rev. Richard.

Meade, Rev. W. R., Kinsale.
Meade, Rev. W., Dunmanway.

Hoare, Rev. W. Worth, Cork, Meade, Mrs., Ballymoney.

Huggart, Richard, Esq., Tralee. Nash, Mrs., Cork.

Nason, Mrs., Kinsale.
Nason, Miss, Ballyhoura-lodge.
Neligan, Rev. W. H., Cork.
Newenham, Mrs., Coolmore.
Newsom, Miss, Cork.

O'Callaghan, Rev. R., Clogheen.
(2 copies.)

O'Callaghan, Miss, Brookville.
Ormsby, Mrs., Brookdale.
Orpen, Mrs., Castle Mahon.
Pedder, Mrs.

Penrose, Mrs., Cork.
Perry, Samuel, Esq. ditto.
Perry, Miss E., ditto.
Phair, Mrs., Brook-lodge.
Phair, Mrs. Wm., Mill View.
Phair, Mrs. Edwd., North Esk.
Pickering, Miss, Mill View.
Poer, Rev. H. B., Cork.
Popham, Miss, ditto.
Power, Mrs., Cove.

Pratt, Mrs. Cork.

Quarry, Rev. John, Glandore.

Radcliffe, Mrs., Cork.

Radcliffe, Mrs. J., ditto.

Radley, R. Esq., Cork.

Reynolds, Miss, ditto.
Rhodes, Rev. J. P.

Roberts, Miss M., Mount Rivers.
Roche, Rev. G., Stradbally.
Rocky, Mr. J., Blackrock.
Rogers, Rev. William, Cloyne.
Roland, Miss, Cork.
Sadleir, Rev. H. E., Bantry.
Sainthill, Richard, Esq., Cork.
Savage, Miss, ditto.

Seward, Mrs. H. O., Cork.
Shaw, Miss, ditto.

Spedding, Rev. W.

Stowards, Robert, Esq.

Sullivan, Miss, Cork.
Swayne, Rev. J., Cashel.
Swete, Rev. Benjamin.
Tanner, Mrs. W., Cork.
Taylor, Mrs., ditto.
Topp, J. W. Esq.
Townly, Mr. Richard

Townsend, Rev. Wm. R.
Townsend, E. R. Esq. M.D.,Cork.
(2 copies.)
Travers, Miss, Cork.
Tuckey, J. T. Esq., ditto.
Uniacke, Miss A., Ballyre.
Vesey, Rev. G., Brook-lodge.
Walker, Rev. T., Kilmalooda.
Wallis, Miss, Mallow.
Warner, Mrs., Castle View.
Warren, R. Esq. Castle Warren.
Warren, Henry, Esq., Cork.
Webb, Stawell, Esq., Dublin.
Webb, Mrs. A. W. Snugborough,

(2 copies.)

Webb, Mrs., Cork.

Weekes, Miss M. A., ditto,
(2 copies.)

Welland, Rev. Wm., Cloyne.
Wilson, Rev. W.

Wilson, Mrs., Scartbarry.
White, Rev. James, Fermoy.
White, Mrs., Cork.
White, Mrs., Fort Henry.
Wight, Miss, Cork.

Wigmore, Rev. Thomas, ditto.
Willis, James, Esq. M.D., ditto,
(2 copies.)

Wilson, Miss E., ditto.
Wise, George H. Esq., ditto.
Wise, W. M'O'Boy, Esq., ditto.
Wright, Mr., ditto.

Woodroffe, Rev. J. N. Glanmire.

St. George, Rev. F. de M., Cork. Woodroffe, Mrs., Boyle.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

PROBABLY in no case more signally than in the present would introductory remarks of an elaborate and lengthy nature be considered intrusive and ill-timed. Impressed with this feeling, I shall as briefly as possible detain the reader with a few statements which may present to his view the design of the work which lies before him. It was commenced by my young friends solely for their own improvement and amusement, without the least intention of bringing it before the public; and it was not until repeatedly urged to do so by many well-judging and experienced Christians, that they ventured to commit to print the work of their leisure hours.

Now that it has appeared, they neither expect nor desire that it may supersede other works of the same nature, but that possessing some little share of novelty in its arrangement and composition, blending the solid truths of Scripture texts with the pleasing efforts of imagination and poetry, it may at least be allowed to form one of those "every-day books" which afford aliment for the soul, by leading us to the Divine source of "truth as it is in Jesus;"-may produce an habitual influence upon the happiness and holiness of the

Christian ;-may contribute to the comfort and enjoyment of his secluded moments, and assist in carrying into practice the excellent precept of the learned Hale, "never be without a book in daily reading of a direct Scriptural nature." To those who will thus peruse it, it may serve at least as an index to point to some subject of Divine instruction suitable to their peculiar circumstances, and bringing before them the combined testimony of Scripture, may afford them solace or direction as they require, vibrating in consonance with the string of joy or sorrow which the providence of God has struck in their bosoms.

In this time-state of the church, there is a vast preponderance of imperfection and consequent suffering; and though no affliction happens to any but what is common to all, yet it presents a new and untried aspect to every sufferer. Some have drank its cup of woe in sorrowful solitude over the wreck of broken ties and disappointed hopes; on others, the smiling sun of prosperity has set, and left them unpitied, unheeded, and unknown. How many have their souls disturbed with conflicting passions, or looking back over the path of stormy life, which desolation has deprived of every happy feeling, behold all the resources of enjoyment which they once possessed abridged, and their personal ease and liberty of thought exchanged for the painful exertions and careful contrivances of anxious want! while how many are the distressing feelings of a spiritual nature, the bitterness of which the heart that endures them only knows! We cannot therefore afford to lose one drop of comfort which ingenuity may apply with ever-varying experience, to Under such sufferings, the Scripture, or

our wants.

any other work of a decided scriptural nature, is the only delight and necessary food of the afflicted; to them he turns for succour. Retirement and devotion are his congenial climes, and he seeks them, not for the amusement which they once afforded, but as a relief for the sting he now poignantly feels.

But the Bible has not been given merely for comfort, the Christian requires more than this,-“reproof, correction, doctrine," form each so many arrows in the quiver of the Divine Word. Who

has not observed how the mind even of the most unconverted is soothed under the balm of gospel promises? and too often it is to be feared that ministers, or private Christians, in the discharge of their respective spheres of duty, unwilling, perhaps, to wound the feelings of their spiritual patients, apply the rich and refreshing cordials of God's promises with empiric rashness to cases where the probing precept, or the lancet of Divine doctrine, is absolutely requisite to let out the gangrene of self-righteousness, or discover the faults and inconsistent conduct of the formalist. In such

instances, the soul cries " peace, peace" to itself where there is no ground for peace; and therefore requires that the wide range of Scripture subjects be brought before its view, so that as each of them appears for consideration, it may be induced by the Holy Spirit's teaching, to search into its creed and conduct, to discover its shortcomings in every Christian grace, and be led thereby to true repentance. Or, when the mind of the Christian has rested sluggishly upon the first principles of religion, without daily advancing in the knowledge of his own utter vileness by nature and practice, his helpless position and complete depend