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THE INDEPENDENT
For 1880.
The Independent appeals to cultivated men and women. It discusses current questions of religion, philosophy, and politics. It is wide-awake. It is not afraid. It sets people to thinking. It welcomes fresh truth. It has great variety. It is so big that it can always have something for the severest thinker and also an abundance of the best lighter literature. It publishes more religious discussion than the religious reviews, poetry and stories than the popular monthlies, and gives more information than an annual cyclopædia. It has twice as large a corps of the most famous writers than any other journal of any sort in the country. It is indispensable to one who wants to know what is going on in the religious world. It pleases people. It makes people angry. It stirs them up, and always interests and instructs those who do not like its position, which is conservative in belief and liberal in fraternity and comprehension. It grows on all who read it. Try it for next year.
REV. JOSEPH COOK’S LECTURES.
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THE DAILY WITNESS.
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THE WORLD FOR 1880.
The year 1880 promises to be one of the most interesting and important years of this crowded and eventful century. It will witness a Presidential election which may result in re-establishing the Government of this country on the principles of its constitutional founders, or in permanently changing the relations of the States to the Federal power. No intelligent man can regard such an election with indifference. The World, as the only daily English newspaper published in the city of New York which upholds the doctrines of constitutional Democracy, will steadily represent the Conservative contention in this great canvass. It will do this in no spirit of servile partisanship, but temperately and firmly. It will be as swift to rebuke what it regards as infidelity to Democratic principles or to the honorable laws of political conflict on the part of its friends as on the part of its foes. It will uphold no candidate for office whom it believes to be unworthy of the support of honest men, and accept no platform which it believes to misrepresent or to contradict the true conditions of our national prosperity and greatness. As a newspaper The World, being the organ of no man, no clique and no interest, will present the fullest and the fairest picture it can make of each day’s passing history in the city, the State, the country and the world. Its correspondents in the chief centres of life and action on both sides of the ocean have been selected for their character not less than for their capacity. It will aim, hereafter as heretofore, at accuracy first of all things in all that it publishes. No man, however humble, shall ever be permitted truly to complain that he has been unjustly dealt with in the columns of The World. No interest, however powerful, shall ever be permitted truly to boast that it can silence the true criticism of The World.
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1880.
We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing appreciation of the Missionary during the year now nearly past, and purpose to spare no effort to make its pages of still greater value to those interested in the work which it records.
Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?
A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs, will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.
Under the editorial supervision of Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, aided by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the American Missionary furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as missionaries in Africa.
It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and progress.
Patriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.
The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on page 412.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
All instances of “D.D.” changed to “D. D.” to be consistent with the majority of the text.
“reponse” changed to “response” on page 355. ([the following response was adopted])
“maintainance” changed to “maintenance” on page 360. ([provision for the maintenance of professorships])
“onmoving” changed to “on moving” on page 380. ([signifies a great providential on moving the conversion])
“usuages” changed “usages” ([among the early usages of New England])
“sancity” changed to “sanctity” on page 383. ([Respect the sanctity of his family.])
Repeated “t” in broken word “import-tant” removed when the word was rejoined on page 396. ([In seven of our most important treaties])
“whatsover” changed to “whatsoever” on page 407. ([to bear whatsoever ills])
“it” changed to “at” on page 412. ([the Will should be made at least two months before])
“Steal” changed to “Steel” on page 413. ([Fine Large Steel Engraving.])
Both “post-paid” and “postpaid” appear in the advertisements. The differences were left, assuming the differences reflect the wishes of the advertisement authors.