What the events of the coming year are to be, as it regards ourselves, we know not.  We would not lift the curtain to gaze into futurity; but may we each have strength and wisdom given us to discharge faithfully every duty, that whether living or dying we may be accepted of God!

SARAH A. GUTHRIE, Secretary.

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THE EDITOR’S TABLE.

The steamer Humboldt, after a long passage, having encountered heavy seas, and been obliged to put into port for repairs, has just arrived.  She has proved herself a stanch vessel, thoroughly tested her sea-going qualities, and escaped dangers which would have wrecked an ordinary steamer.  Her passengers express the utmost confidence in the vessel and her officers, and advise travelers to take passage in her.

Our bark has now accomplished a voyage, during which it met many dangers and delays which as thoroughly tested its power and capacity; and we too meet with expressions of kindness and confidence, some of which we venture to extract from letters which the postman has just laid on our table.

A lady, residing near Boston, writes thus:  “Permit me to assure you, my dear Madam, of my warmest interest in you and your work, and of my earnest desire that your enterprise may prove a successful one.  Your work certainly deserves a wide circulation, and has in my opinion a stronger claim upon the patronage of the Christian public than any other with which I am acquainted.  You must have met with embarrassments in commencing a new work, and hence, I suppose, the occasional delays in the issuing of your numbers.”

A lady from Michigan writes:  “My dear Mrs. W., we rejoice in the success which has thus far attended your efforts in the great work of your life.  May their results, as manifested in the lives and characters of the children of the land, for many many years, prove that your labors were not in vain, in the Lord.  We were beginning to have some anxiety as to the success of your Magazine from not receiving it as early as we expected; no other periodical could fill its place.  May you, dear Madam, long be spared to edit it, and may you have all the co-operation and patronage you need.”

A friend says:  “Our pleasant interview, after a lapse of years, and those years marked by many vicissitudes, has caused the tide of feelings to ebb and flow till the current of my thoughts is swollen into such a stream of intensity as to lead me, through this channel of communication, to assure you of my warmest sympathy and my deep interest in the important work in which you have been so long engaged.  It was gratifying to learn from your lips that amid the varied trials which have been scattered in your pathway God has been your refuge and strength—­a very present help in trouble, and cheering to hear your widowed heart sing of mercy and exult in the happiness of that precious group who have gone before you into the eternal world.” * * *