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The Publishers take pleasure in announcing their plans for the ensuing year. The present large circulation of The 
Christian Advocate and the prospective increase in the subscription list, will enable us to continue to furnish it in its en- 
larged form and at the present low price of $2.50 per year, while the superior quality of the paper and the excellence of the 
mechanical work upon it will not be diminished in the least. We will also send the paper to new subscribers from the date 
of receiving their names to January 1, 1876, for the price of a single year's subscription. In other words, new subscribers 
for 1875, the volume which opens with January next, will receive the paper for the remainder of the present y em' free 
The Publishers have also arranged to favor every subscriber to The Christian Advocate for 1875 with the most meritori- 
ous and valuable free Premium ever offered by any religious weekly to all its subscribers. For this purpose they have 
purchased of that eminent artist, Mr. A. H. Ritchie, his new, original, and magnificent steel engraving, " MERCY KNOCK- 
ING AT THE WICKET GATE," (single copies of which sell at $5 each,) and will send a copy free of charge to evert/ 
subscriber, old and new. 
Concerning the real merit of this splendid engraving, and as illustrations of the great favor which it is receiving from 
the best judges, we quote the following brief paragraphs from highly appreciative notices (many of them lengtbly) re- 
ceived by Mr. Ritchie during the last few weeks : 
From Bishop Simpson : " I am much pleased with both Its design and its execution." 
From Rev. Dr. E. O. Haven, Chancellor of Syracuse University t '"Mercy Knocking nt the Wicket 
Gate' is not only superior as a work of art, and a great credit to its author on that account, but it is of such a character as 
to make a pleasing impression on the mind, and to be worthy of a permanent place where it will be often seen. It partakes 
largely of that winch makes a thing ' a joy forever.' I congratulate the artist on his success." 
From Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, President of Divinity School of Yale College.—' I have rarely 
found my susceptibilities so touched by any similar work of art as they have been to-day (Sept. M, 1S74,) by your most ex- 
quisite engraving of your own most eloquent picture, ' Mercy Knocking at the Wicket Gate.' You may thank Gj>d that 
He, by giving yon grace to make that picture, has made yon a preacher of the Gospel to all who, seeing it, can feel the 
lesson that is in it." 
From Rev. Dr. Cunimings, President of Wesleyan University : "The engraving, 'Mercy Knocking at 
the Wicket (jute,' executed by A. H. Eitchie, is a beautiful work of art. No one can look upon it without being pleased 
and profited." 
From Rev. Dr, Talmage, Brooklyn : " The engraving, 'Mercy Knocking at the Door,' is worth fifty sermon-* 
How any one can look at it without more tears on his cheek than seems, according to the picture, to have fallen on Mercy's 
cheek, 1 know not. Thanks, thanks." 
From Rev. Dr. Fowler, President of the Nortli-westeru University : "Have seen your new cd grav- 
ing, • Mercy Knocking at thu Wicket Gate,' and like the subject and the work." 
From the Western Christian Advocate, Sept. 23 : "It will be found an excellent and suitable picture 
with which to decorate many houses, and to collectors or all who appreciate the progress of native skill it will be valuable. 
It is a notable addition to American works." 
From Zion's Herald, Sept. 24 : '• It is an impressive and cloqnent picture, full of pathos and spiritual signifi- 
cance. It makes a perpetual sermon upon the wall." 
From the Baptist Weekly, Sept. 24: "It is engraved in the highest style, and makes one of the finest pic- 
tures we have ever teen . . . The moral effect, of such a picture in our homes can hardly be estimated. It is a study so 
fruitful of religious thought, and so tender in its practical suggestions, that the eye can hardly grow weary in gazing upon 
it, and the heart can never lose the power ol its impression." 
From the Brooklyn Daily Argus, Sept. 14 : " It is a beautiful parlor piece." 
From the N. Y. Daily Times, Sept. 12 : " The beautv and force of Mr. Ritchie's original picture, and the 
masterly manner in which he treated this pretty episode from Pilgrim's Progress, were well described at the tnv.w akii, \w 
believe, the unanimous accord of the critics. We have only to say that the engraving on steel does full .Justice to the 
original, and that it baa been completed in the best style of the art. 
From the Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia, Oct. 10 : "Mr. Ritchie's new engraving 1 :--t a beautiful 
study, executed with rare skill. II is large in size, and exquisite in tone and finish . . . Lovers ol art Win pa glftfl to see. 
this picture multiplied. It will find favor in many homes where a critical taste challenges every new introduction. 
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