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HE INDEPENDENT, 



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"The most influential religious organ in the States." — The Spectator, London, Eng. 



IN its thirty-seventh year of publication Tue Independent stands easily at the head of religious and literary weekly 

 newspapers wherever published. Being undenominational, it has the opportunity offered it to present to its readers 

 discussions upon all religious questions, many clergymen and laymen seeking its pages for a freer and fuller discussion 

 than any denominational paper will grant. Having thirty-two folio pages, it has space to give all of the important 

 religious intelligence ; and to aid it in doing so, it has a paid corps of correspondents scattered all over the world. The 

 matter of expense is not considered in its aim to give its readers the most valuable discussions and most trustworthy 

 facts by the ablest and most popular writers. 



rOK thirty years past the design of Tue Independent has been to publish tUe ablest and best family paper in the 

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 the Academy and AthetKEiim of London. 



TT has altogether twenty-two different departments, nearly all of which are edited by or contributed to by specialists. 

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THE Independent has thirty-two pages ; the other weeklies have from twelve to twenty-four. At $3.' per year— its 

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T\URING the past year The Independent, desiring that its subscribers should have stories by the very best living 

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