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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



[January, 



The Christian 



LYMAN ABBOTT, Editor. 



ELIOT McCORMICK, 

 HAMILTON W. MABIE, 



Associate Editors. 



Contributing Editors: 



Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D., New-York. 

 Rev. John Cotton Smith, D. D., New- York. 

 Rev. Washington (iladd.cn, Springfield, Mass. 

 Rev. Wm. Henry Green, D. D., Princeton Seminary. 

 Rev. James M. Ludlow, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Rev. F. A. Nohle, D. D., Chicago, 111. 

 Rev. George Frederick Wright, Andover Seminary. 

 President J. H. Seelye, D. D., Amherst College. 

 Rev. George Washburne, I). D., Robert College, 

 Constantinople. 

 Rev. B. B. Warfield, D. D., Allegheny Seminary. 

 Rev. S. W. Duffield, Altoona, Pa. 

 Rev. W. F. Crafts, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Rev. Selah Merrill, D. D., Andover Seminary. 

 President I. W. Andrews, D. D., Marietta College. 

 Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., Yale Seminary. 

 Pro! G. Stanley Hall, Harvard University. 

 Prof. Charles s. Minot, Harvard University. 

 Prof. T. S. Doolittle, D. D., Rutgers College. 

 Prof. Leonard Waldo, Yale College. 

 Rev. Edward Abbott, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Rev. S. H. Virgin, New-York. 

 Rev. H. C. Haydn, D. D., New- York. 

 Edward Eggleston, New- York. 

 Horace E. Scudder, Cambridge, Mass. 

 George M. Towle, Boston, Mass. 



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