THE

CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER'S

New Year's Gift

FOR

1838.

Author of " 'Village Conversations; or, the Vicar's Fire-side;"
"The Ionian; or, Woman in the Nineteenth Century;"
"Sketch of a Plan for Suppressing Mendicity;"
"The Temple of Truth," &c. &c.

LONDON:

SHAW & SONS, 137 & 138, FETTER LANE.

1838.

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY SHAW AND SONS,

137 & 138, PETTER-LANE.

ΤΟ

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY

THE QUEEN.

MADAM,

As the Head of the Christian Church established in Your Majesty's Dominions, the following pages, exemplifying the Divine Authority of the Christian Religion, its adaptation to the nature, duties, and destination of man, and to the improvable capacities of the human species, are appropriately and most respectfully inscribed by,

Madam,

Your Majesty's most devoted,

Obedient humble Servant,

S. RENOU.