Excellent full year of the United Presbyterian Magazine with extensive missionary content, Scottish Theology [hymnody, Calvinism, Presbyterianism, Sabbath, Popery, the Reformation, etc.], and a fascinating series of articles reflecting on the propriety of the American Presbyterian response to the Slavery, Abolitionism, Missions in Hawaii; the Relationship between Wesley and Whitefield, etc. 

Contents include:

The Massacre of Nestorian Christians; Anti-Slavery Progress in America; The Adaptation of the Sabbath to the Natural Constitution by Professor M'Michael; National Sin. by William Anderson; Revival of the Office of Deaconess in the Christian Church; The Reformation in Italy; Its Difficulties and Dawn. by William Ritchie; Missions in the Sandwich Islands [Convention between the Queen of England and the King of Hawaii]; Memoir of the Rev. James Bonar of Auchtermuchty; The Caffers and the Colonists of South Africa; Times of the Scottish Covenant by John Reid of Dunning; The Church and the Sabbath School by Andrew Thomson; The Bible and Slavery by John Symington [series]; Botanical Theology. The Being of God.; George Whitefield and John Wesley; Proposed Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies; The Report on Psalmody; The Heirship of the Sons of God by Daniel Gorrie; The Claims of the Jews by Alexander M'Leod; Etc. etc. etc.

The United Presbyterian Magazine for 1847. Edinburgh. William Oliphant and Sons. 1848. 580pp.

Attractive half leather with some rubbing, hinges through leather, but very solid. Interior crisp and clean.