A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER
OF THE LARGEST CLASS.
PROSPECTUS FOR 1863.
This long-established paper has now nearly completed its thirty-second volume, and notwithstanding the severe calamities in which the country is involved, and which tax most heavily in men and money those States in which its circulation is largest, it is nearing the close of another eventful year with its circulation unimpaired—a matter of special gratification, as showing that its course, in these trying times, has been generally approved, and that it has been more widely useful than ever the past year, by its firm and cordial support of the Government when assailed by a wicked rebellion.
ITS COURSE OF EVENTS,
carefully compiled from original and other sources, furnishes from week to week a current
HISTORY OF THE PRESENT CIVIL WAR,
which has been highly prized, for its fullness and accuracy, by all its readers.
While it has aimed never to overstep the limits of a religious journal by violence of language or the discussion of merely political questions, it has constantly held up the cause in which we are engaged as