London: CHAPMAN & HALL, 193. Piccadilly.
On the First of November, 1853, will be Published,
NO. I.,
Containing Sixteen Pages, Crown Quarto, Price Three Halfpence, of
THE CHURCH OF THE PEOPLE,
Monthly Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, &c., devoted to the Religious, Moral, Physical, and Social Elevation of the great body of the People.
This periodical, projected and conducted by a committee of Clergy and Laity, in the heart of the manufacturing districts, is intended to express the sympathies of earnest Churchmen towards both their brethren in the faith, and their fellow-men in general.
Designed to avoid unreality, lukewarmness, and dry dogmatism, as well as compromise and controversy—and not unmindful of things temporal, whilst chiefly directed to things eternal—it is hoped that it may assist to refresh the faithful, correct the erring, and win the unbeliever.
A trial is respectfully requested for it, and that at once.
It is a work of love, not of lucre; and, as such, is commended to the brotherhood.