3 to realise what I desire. I only need a sale of 4,000 copies. Let every Minister of the two denominations, Baptist and Independent, secure a sale of two copies, and the work is done. Will you take in one copy yourself, and procure the sale of two other copies ? It will be cheap; one hundred and thirty-two pages for One Shilling; it will equal in cheapness the "Cornhill," or "St. James's," or "Macmillan," and I hope that it will be to its own readers as interesting as those famous journals. It will certainly be the cheapest Review in England or America. It has been sinking I know. But I think there must be power enough in our midst to sustain this enterprise. Have we not men of critical sagacity and acumen ? Have we not men of skill in the graces of composition? I start with the design and determination to pay for every article-the amount paid must, of course, materially depend upon the sale-the larger the sale the more brain power can we purchase for the periodical. The condition of the sale at present makes it impossible to pay either editor or contributor; this is the state in which I found it. I desire to make it worth the while of a scholar and a gentleman to devote some time to it. If this cannot be done, we have no constituency, and it had better drop out of existence. So far as I am concerned, one or the other shall be the case. It shall sail as I desire, or, for me, it shall sink. Your indifference to it I believe to be very general. You say "It is not needed, let it go." Well, corporations are usually considered doubtful things, and I believe most of the institutions on this earth, that I can hear of, have something doubtful about them. But it is pretty generally acknowledged that the corporate surrounding of any principle is its preservation. If you don't take care of your body, your soul will soon become ashamed of it, and quit it, in fact. Souls cannot get on without bodies. You said to me, when I remarked that the ECLECTIC had served the Nonconformist and Puritan principles of the Congregationalists, Baptists, and Independents, you did not care a snap for bodies, only for truth and principle. Very well; but by-and-bye you find you have, in starving your body, dissipated your principles. Even now we have no archives; we have little literary representationalism. I have been desirous of writing an article on chapels and chapel building. I was desirous of finding how much Congregationalists have expended on chapel building during the last quarter of a century; not one soul in England can inform me; I can only discover this by a wide research for myself. Now, I desire to make the ELECTIC REVIEW the archives of our labours, as well as the tablet of our principles. I have said in connection with the present aspects of our Nonconformity, there are some things to smite and some to sustain. If Congregationalism is to exist at all, it must exist by its clearly defined principles. Bodies cannot exist without skeletons and souls. Skeletons give shape and form. Souls give life and individuality. Every aspect of our symbolism needs careful agitation, discussion, and thought. No words can possibly exaggerate the ignorance of Church people with reference to the principles of Nonconformists. But even Nonconformists themselves will frequently be found in ignorance of their principles, and by Journalism, rather than by Treatises, they will be enabled to comprehend them. Finally, I am afraid often to mention the name of our Lord in matters where our selfishness is concerned, but I trust this, too, if successful, will be for the good of His Church, and for the conservation and extension of "the Truth as it is in Jesus." I am, my dear Sir, PAXTON HOOD. BARNSBURY, April 30, 1861. The British Standard, A Weekly First-Class Journal, published every Friday. 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Ox the 4th of January, 185), the Editor commenced a Series of Letters, addressed to the Prince Consort, on Puseyism and Popery, showing the rapid progress which these deadly Systems are making in Protestant England, and endeavouring to rouse the friends of Religious Freedom and Evangelical Truth to a due sense of the dangers which beset them. 2 With this view he proposed to raise a Fund for the Gratuitous Circulation of 100,000 copies of the BRITISH ENSIGN, containing these Letters. That proposal has met with a noble response; nearly 70,000 copies have been already subscribed for. It is a source of supreme gratification to find that these Letters, including the copies sold, have been put into the hands of no fewer than 300,000 persons of every grade in society, situated mainly in benighted localities, and perused by probably not less than One Million people. To complete the fund, about 30,000 more are needed. 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