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chapel, and this is all which the undergraduates need hear from them. To these prayers, observes Mr Gray, the only objection seems to be that they omit every thing peculiar to any particular sect or party ; and this by the people of Massachusetts will undoubtedly be deemed a high commendation.' To so little do the charges of sectarianism against the college amount, and so groundless are all fears growing out of the connexion of the Theological school with the University.

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To the objection that the preachers at the chapel are Unitarians, it is answered, that no student is required to hear them. Every one may attend any other church which he, or his parents shall prefer.'

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But then all the officers of the college from the President down to the Janitor' it is asserted, are Unitarian. But what is the fact? Of the fifteen 'permanent officers having any connexion with the undergraduates, or receiving any pay from the college funds,' and appointed within the last ten years, the President excepted, eight belong to the several sects of Trinitarians, and only six are Unitarians.

Such are some of the facts and arguments of the Letter. It contains much valuable matter which our limits do not permit us to notice. As before intimated, however, it has already obtained a wide circulation, and we conclude with expressing the hope that it will be generally read by the people of this Commonwealth. The publication is timely, and cannot fail to be useful, more especially as the writer being connected with an orthodox church, cannot be supposed to feel any undue partiality for the doctrines of Unitarianism.

TIMES OF THE SAVIOUR.

The Times of the Saviour. By Harriet Martineau. From the English Edition. Boston. Leonard C. Bowles. 1831. pp. 132.

It is impossible to read this little book with indifference. It will be found, especially to the young, at once interesting and instructing. It deserves a prominent place among those useful works, which, with a happy mixture of imagination and reality, are intended to illustrate the times of our Saviour.' There is no little ingenuity in the manner, in which the writer contrives to interweave the real history of the gospels with her fictitious narrative. It is no small part of her praise, as of her success, that she has in no instance allowed her fancy to violate the simplicity or truth of the evangelical record.

At the opening of the work, she introduces three young Jews, conferring together on Him, who was to come, the hope of Israel;' astonished, delighted, almost convinced, by the words and works of the Teacher;' and finally yielding their prepossessions, interests, and connexions as Israelites, to a grateful faith in the Messiah. Under several distinct chapters, of which we might select as most pleasing, the two significantly called the hope of the Hebrew,' and the wilderness gladdened,' she exhibits the Master' in his mild dignity, in his gracious words, and his works of mercy. And nothing can be more engaging, nothing more lovely and venerable, than the picture she has drawn.

There is here and there, an affectation of expression, which we wish had been avoided. But, on the whole, we have looked over few works of deeper interest. And, for the information it conveys, in the pleasantest manner, of the customs, opinions, prepossessions of the Jews; its familiar, but accurate references to the various scenes of our Saviour's ministry, to the cities, villages, and rivers of Palestine, and thence the knowledge it may give of sacred geography, we commend the little volume to the attention of teachers and to the libraries of Sunday Schools.

INDEX.

A.

Abbot, Rev Abiel, character of
his sermons, 257--quotation
from, 258.

Album, preface to an, 214.
American Traveller's account of
Robert Hall, 64.

'All our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags,' explained, 255,
271.

Animosity among christian sects,
263.

Atonement, latest orthodox form
of the doctrine of, 235.

B.

Beard Rev J. R., notice of the
American edition of his ser-
mons, 277.

Beza, refuses to extend the right
hand of fellowship to the Lu-
therans, 81.
Bishop and presbyter, originally
two names for the same office,
194.

C.

Calvin, his testimony to the di-
visions among the reformers,
81-doctrines of, how regard-
ed by the Lutherans, ib.-pro-
cures he death of Servetus,
82-note. Objects to the use
of the word trinity, 83.
Calvinists, spirit of, according to
Luther, 84.
Changes in religious opinions,
and in the character of preach-

ing, in New England, for the
last fifty years, aged clergy-
man's account of, 128, 163,
288.

Character, Christian, gradually
formed, 244.

Christ, not an object of prayer
during the first ages, 134.
Christendom, sins of, 257.
Christian character, means of ac-
quiring it, 241, et seqq.
Christian ministers. See Minis-
ters.

-mem-

Church, Christian, its nature
and constitution, 87-
bers, 102-officers, 103-dis-
cipline, 104-privileges, 106
primitive ministers in, did not
differ in rank and office, 144.
Churches and parishes, early N.
England, character of, 28.
Churches, feeble, measures for
establishing them in Unitari-
an parishes, 75.

Claims upon the pulpit, 49.
Clergy of N. England, opinions
of before the revolutionary
war, 128.

Clergyman, aged, recollections
of, 128, 162, 208.
Communion service, reflections
at the close of, 24.
Consistency, a plea for, familiar-
ly addressed to Unitarians, 56,
et seqq.
Consociations, attempt to intro-
duce them into Massachusetts,
in 1814, and 1815, 74.

Covenants of the early N. Eng-
land churches, not doctrinal,
232.

Cranmer, his opinion of what is

necessary to constitute one a
minister of a church, 199.
Creeds, their influence, and use
made of them by the Ortho-
dox, 70.

D.

Explanatian of Isaiah lxiv. 6,
255.

F.

Faith and works, 266-in what
sense the terms were used by
St Paul and St James, 267, et
seqq.

Fear and love of God, 34, et
seqq-mistakes about, 35-
how compatible, 37.

Death of a daughter, lines on, by Feeble churches, mode of organ-

a parent, 274.

Deceitfulness of the heart, 172.
Dedham, early covenant of the
first church in, 232.
Dedication, Unitarian, 96.
Denunciations, orthodox, 77.
Dialogue on Unitarianism, char-
acter, of and quotation from,
136.

Diversities of operations,' 241,
et seqq.

Divine providence, 11, et seqq.
Doddridge, Philip, Correspond-
ence and Diary of, 175-his
liberality, 178.

Doctrine of regeneration ex-

plained, and objections to the
popular theory of stated, 117,
155.

Doctrines of the reformation, 79
-incorrectly stated by the
orthodox, ib.

Duncan, Rev. Mr, of Baltimore,
his opinion of creeds not re-
lished by Dr Miller, 71-ex-
communicated by an orthodox
Synod, 72.

E.

Ecclesiastical affairs in Massa-
chusetts, past and present state
of, 27-remedy for existing
evils, 31.

Ecclesiastical tribunals, 73.
Edwards, Dr Jonathan, effects

of his writings, 129.
Exhibition of Unitarianism,' an
abusive publication, notice of,
223.

izing them in Unitarian par-
ishes, 75.

First church in Dedham, char-
acter of its early covenant,
233.

G.

Grace, means of, 241.
Gray, F. C., his Letter to Gov.
Lincoln, in relation to Har-
vard University, 279.

H.

Hall, Robert, account of, by an
American traveller, 64-char-
acter of his preaching, 66—his
moral worth, 69.

Harvard University, see Univer-
sity.
Hawes, Rev. Joel, character of
his Tribute to the memory
of the Pilgrims,' 226.
Heart, deceitfulness of accord-
ing to the prophet, 172.
Hints, advisory, on the subject
of preaching, 211.
Hollis, his catholic spirit, 283-
his intentions in regard to his
Professorship, 141, 283-'form'
to be assented to by his Pro-
fessor at his inaugeration, 142.
Holy Ghost, sin against, what,
145.
Hopkins' system of divinity, ef-
fects of its publication, 29—its
opposers, 131.

I.
Inconsistency between Christian

precepts and Christian prac-
tice, 257.
Installations, Unitarian, 48, 96.
Isaiah Ixiv. 6, explained, 255.

J.

Jewish and Christian religions,
127.

L.

Lavater, J. C., Letter of, to
Mendelsohn, 93.

Law, deeds of, what St Paul
meant by the phrase, 297.
Liberal and Orthodox parties in
N. England, origin of, 29.
Lincoln, Gov. Mr Gray's Letter
to, relating to Harvard Uni-
versity, 279.

Life, what? 1-does not consist
in apathy and repose, 2-nor
in sensuality, 3-nor devotion
to the world, 4—the vigor,
perfection, and use of our
whole nature, 1, 5,-means of
attaining its ends, 6.

Luther, his opinion of the Cal-
vinists, and the spirit of the
Calvinists, 81-objects to the
term trinity, 83.

M.

Martineau, Harriet, her Tra-
ditions of Palestine, 138-
American edition of, 288.
Massachusetts, ecclesiastical af-
fairs of, 27, et seqq.
May, Rev. S. J., his Letters to
Dr Hawes, 226.
Means of grace, 241.
Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn,
the Jewish Philosopher, 40,
91.
Mendelsohn, Moses, memoirs of,
40, 89-quoted, 43, 44, 45-
his letter to Lavater, 90-ob-
jections to religious controver-
sy, ib.-views of proselytism,

91.
Ministerial intercourse, ortho-
dox measures relating to, 72
-case of threatening, ib.—

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Oberlin, Letter of, on the Uni-
tarianism of the first three
centuries, noticed, 133.
Obtaining religion, objections to
the phrase, 242.

Officers, church, who they are,
and what their power, 103—
how appointed in primitive
times, 196.
Opinions, religious, changes in,
in New England within fifty
years, 128, 163, 208.
Oppression practised by ministe-
rial associations, 73.
Ordination, what, 197.

Ordinations, Unitarian, 48, 190,
240.

Origen pronounces Christ not an
object of prayer, 134.
Original poetry, 10, 108, 171,
214, 274.

Orthodox of the present day,
want of union among, 82, quo-
tation from an orthodox writer
concerning, ib.
Orthodoxy, modern, doctrines of,
date no further back than the
days of Augustine and Atha-
nasius, 227.

P.

Parent, lines of, on the death of
a daughter, 274.

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