PUBLISHED FOR THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN
SAILORS' SOCIETY,

BY T. WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXLVIII.

LONDON:

J. UNWIN, GRESHAM STEAM PRESS,

BUCKLERSBURY.

PREFACE.

HAVING Completed the first year of the enlarged series of this periodical, under its new title, "THE JUVENILE BETHEL FLAG MAGAZINE," its Editor feels it a pleasing duty to acknowledge the many flatter. ing testimonials as to its instructiveness and adaptation to its desired end. It has been designed faithfully to represent the SAILOR,-both in his neglected and irreligious character, and as renewed by Divine grace, formed to illustrate real Christianity. In each of these, it has exhibited striking examples, especially of those who are Bethel sailors, truly the servants of God by faith in Jesus Christ. In this way it has sought to gain an increase of liberal friends to the "BRITISH AND FOREIGN SAILORS' SOCIETY."

While, however, this has been the first object of this humble Magazine, it has been designed to give as large an amount as possible of various information, on all useful matters relating to the sea and seamen, Britain's trade and commerce with foreign countries, and the works of God in